Monday 5 March 2012

WORLD MAP 14TH CENTURY


[1]  Description: The Catalan Atlas produced in 1375 by the Majorcan cartographers Abraham and Jehuda Cresques is the most important Catalan world map of the Middle Ages. The world map originally consisted of various leaves.

Europe
Middle East

East Asia
[2]  Description: World map made around 1420 by the Italian cartographer Pietro Vesconte.





[4]   Description: The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a world map dating to ca. 1300, derived from the T and O maps and the largest known medieval map.

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