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Introduction (Orginal: 1985 - Lasted updated 12 October 2024)
Monographs
227 Kuang Yü T’u [Guangbei tu] or The Mongol Atlas
The General Map of China, Chu-Ssu-Pen and Lo Hung-hsien, 1320/1555
Chinese Map Legend
Hsi-Pei Pi Ti-Li T’u [Map of the Countries of the Northwest], Chu Ssu-Pen, 1329
The Countries of the Southwestern Sea, Chu Ssu-Pen/Lo Hung-hsien, 1320/1555
228 World Map from Marino Sanudo’s Liber secretorum fidelium crucis, ca. 1320
Map of Palestine, Pietro Vesconte, ca. 1320
228.1 Marco Polo maps in the Rossi Collection, ca. 1350
229 World Map, Nasir al-Tusi, (1331)
230 World Map, Opicinus de Canistris, ca. 1296-1300
231 Ch’onhado [Map of the world beneath the heavens]
Go Tenjiku Zu [Map of the Five Regions of India], Jukai, 1364
Yojido Atlas, Ch’onhado [World Map], 1789
Ssu Hai Tsung T’u [Comprehensive Chart of the Four Seas]
P’alto Chido Ch’ongnon: Kanayang Kyongsong to, 1896
Yojido Chunggukto [China]
Atlas XI: Tchien-ha-tchong-do [World map]
Ye-chi-do [Geographical Atlas] [World map]
Thou-chou-pien [World map], Tchang Hoang
Map of Jambudvipa, by Sokaku (?), 1709
Yeoji jeondo [Yoji Chondo] - Complete terrestrial map
Nansenbushu [Buddhist Map of the World]
Daimin Kyuhen Bankoku Jinseki Rotei Zenzu, 1645
Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka no Zu, 1710
Sihai Huayi Zongtu, [World Diagram of China and the Barbarians], 1532
232 Polychronicon, Ranulf Higden, ca. 1342
233 Laurentian Sea Atlas, Medicean Atlas, 1351
234 Saint-Denis Chonicles, ca. 1370
235 Catalan Atlas, Abraham Cresques, 1375
236 Yoktae chewang honil kangnido, Ch’üan Chin and Li Hui, 1402
236.3 1418 Map, Mo Yi Tong, ca. 1418/1763
238 Imago Mundi, Pierre d’Ailly, 1410
239 Pirrus de Noha world map, 1414
240 World Map, Albertin de Virga, ca, 1411-15
240.1 Map of a Swiss codice by Sallust, 1420
241 World Map, Andrea Bianco, 1432
242 Mapa Mondi Figura Mondi, Giovanni Leardo, 1442
243 The Vinland Map, unknown, 1440?
244 Norse World Map, Björno, (12th-14th cen.)
245 World Map, Andreas Walsperger, 1448
246 Catalan-Estense Map, unknown, 1450-60
247 The Maps of the Nova Cosmographia, Dana Durand, 1440 reconstruction
248 The Genoese Map, unknown, 1457
249 Fra Mauro’s Map, Fra Mauro/Andrea Bianco, 1459
250 Cotrugli’ De navigatione, 1465
250.1 Representative Portolan Charts
250.2 Gabriel de Vallseca portolan, 1439
251 The Zeitz Map, unknown, 1470
252 Toscanelli’s Chart, Paolo Toscanelli, (1474)
253 Rudimentum Novitiorum, World Map, Lucas Brandis de Schass, 1475
253.2 Das ist die mapa mu[n]di un[d] alle Land un[d] kungk reich wie sie ligend in der
ga[n]ntze Welt, Hanns Rust (Augsburg), 1480
255 Wieder-Woldan Map, ca. 1485
255.1 Olomouc/Omlutz mappamundi, 1450
255.2 John of Udine mappamundi, 1450
256 World Map, Henricus Martellus, 1489
World Map, Henricus Martellus, 1490
257 “The Christopher Columbus Chart”, Christopher Columbus? 1490
258 Behaim’s Globe, Martin Behaim, 1492
259 The Laon Globe, unknown, (1493)
260 Liber chronicarum Secunda etas Mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle), Hartmann Schedel, 1493
261 Tractatus de Sphaera Mundi, Johannes de Sacrobosco, 1300-1500
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