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This map shows the whole Mediterranean, the Black Sea and a part of the Atlantic coast, from the north of present-day Morocco to the present-day Netherlands, but the accuracy of the map is mostly limited to the Mediterranean. It is the oldest known…

Cosmas was a Greek mapmaker and monk living in the 6th century. This image shows 4 men standing on the cardinal points, their feet touching, thus proving to Cosmas that they couldn't all be upright.
The slide is labelled "The Plans of Cosmas - The…

The world map of the atlas attached to Marino Sanudo's "Liber secretorum fidelium Crucis". He sent it to the Vatican in 1321 and it is still there as MS. Vat. Lat. 2972 at the Vatican Library. It was probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte in 1320.

Slide is labelled "The World according to Cosmas, with the walls and arch of Heaven. Above the Creator surveying his works. The rising and setting sun are moving round the mountain in the north."

Illustrated Map of Spain and Britain, probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte for Marino Sanuto.
Slide is labelled "Brit. Mus. add ms 27376"

Slide is labelled "The Plans of Cosmas The Present and Antediluvian Worlds, with Ocean between"
Cosmas was a map maker from the 6th century.

The Catalan Map is medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s, it has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language.
This image is a fragment of the whole.

Map from 13th century reproduced across two pages of a book.

Madaba mosaic map from 16th century

This map by Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and…

A printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The name America is placed on South America on the main map.
A single copy of…

Map of the world by Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732),
one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century.
The earth is split into 2 hemispheres and illustrates the known world. Coastlines of the southern hemisphere…

Hand-drawn and illustrated map of the World by Psalter.
Slide is labelled "British Museum ADD.MS 28681 fol 9r
PSALTER Map of World."
The Psalter World Map or the Map Psalter is a small mappa mundi from the 13th century, now in the British Library,…

Hand-drawn and illustrated map of Europe and North Africa, it is orientated with South to the top of image.
Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris, (1200 - 1259) was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts,…

Part of Ordnance Survey Map showing the area around Bickleigh and Yelverton.
Slide is annotated "Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of HM stationery Office"

An illustrated map of the world entitled "The World according to Hecataeus BC 500." The world is shown as a disc encircled by oceans. The coastline on the slide has been high-lighted with a thick pen.

A circular, hand-drawn map in decorative style of Jerusalem and surrounding area. It has drawings of holy buildings and pilgrims. The map is from the Royal Library of Belgium, and dates from the mid 12th century.

Ancient hand-drawn map of Albi, from the middle of the eighth century. This map of the world is painted on a rather thick parchment, in goatskin or sheepskin. It represents the world in the form of a horseshoe centred around the Mediterranean, (the…

Woman in long dress holding lance in right hand, having collected rings suspended from gantries. Large crowd watching on and stewards also in field. Location unknown.