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Around the year 1300, the Byzantine scholar Maximos Planudes rediscovered a copy of Geographia, written in the second century AD by Ptolemy. Maximos was able to recreate some of the maps created by the ancient cartographer, including this one showing the British Isles. Portolan Chart by Pietro Vesconte.
The Map of Great Britain circa A.D. 1360 known as the Gough Map Preserved in The Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sanders, William Basevi. “Map of England and Scotland (author unknown) preserved in the Bodleian Library; probable date, about 1300.” In The Thirty-Second Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records 1 ...
- Map of Britain by Matthew Paris – 13th Century
- Portolan Chart by Pietro Visconte – C. 1325
- England with The Adjoining Kingdom, Scotland by Sebastian Munster – 1554
- Anglia and Hibernia Nova by Girolamo Ruscelli – 1561
- Anglia Regnum by Gerard Mercator – 1595
Paris was a Benedictine monk who was well known in 13th century England for writing and illustrating several manuscripts including a number of maps. This particular image of Britain features around 250 named towns.
Portolan charts were key to maritime navigation in the medieval world. This representation of Britain comes from a larger navigational chart covering the whole of Western Europe.
Produced in 1554 for his translation of Ptolomey’s Geographica, this map shows a significant improvement from Munster’s 1550 map of the island.
Ruscelli was an Italian cartographer who published extensively throughout the first part of the 16th century.
Now probably the most famous cartographer of the late medieval period, Gerard Mercartor was the first person to use the term ‘atlas’ to describe a collection of maps. This map of Britain is taken from one of Mercator’s early Atlases.
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CARTOGRAPHICAL PROGRESS. MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN. EARLY MAPS OF THE BRITISH ISLES a.d. iooo-a.d. 1579. With Introduction and Notes by G. R. Crone. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1961. 32 pages, and 15 collotype plates in a portfolio; 21 x 16x2 inches. 355.
A MEDIEVAL MAP OF BRITAIN THE MAP OF GREAT BRITAIN, CIRCA A.D. 1360, KNOWN AS THE GOUGH MAP. An introduction to the facsimile, by E. J. S. Parsons. With: 'The roads ofthe Gough Map,' by Sir Frank Stenton. (Royal Geographical Society: Reproductions of early manuscript maps, IV. Bodleian Library: Map reproductions, I.) Oxford: University Press, 1958.
View a map of Medieval Britain in 1215 - the year that king John was forced to sign the Magna Carta and so start England on the road to democracy.
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