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From hard copy record
"Hugh Town, Fishing Boats and View across the Sound to Tresco"

Grid Reference, SV 9065 1058

For further information see Historic Environment Record,…

Handwritten Hard Copy Record
"Looking across Hugh Town to the Church and Old Windmill on right. From below Star Castle"

Hand written Hard Copy in Box
"Above Hugh Town, Looking across the Sound to Tresco, Bryher at Left"

Apocalypse of Silos, Beatus world map, with Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden The Mediterranean Sea is represented by a line in the centre, the Red Sea by a vertical line. The land is surrounded by water with fish swimming all…

A map showing the Mediterranean area. The map is oriented with east to the top with the British Isles are in the bottom left corner and India and Sri Lanka at the top.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. COT.MS.B.V. fol 56 Anglo Saxon Map Pt…

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…

This world map occupies two pages of a manuscript and is oriented with the East at the top where a framed picture of Adam, Eve and Serpent can be seen. Ethiopia and Libya are identified and the Mediterranean is a narrow channel rising from the…

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.

Double page (pp 92 & 93) from "The Voyage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt."
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an…

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.

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…

Some identifiable places include Persia, Galilee, Rhodes and Cyprus. The map is oriented with east to the top.
Slide is labelled "British Museum ADD MS 10049 for 64 r JEROME"

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.

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

Map from The Boke of Idrography byJean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz. He was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer, born to a Scottish father and a French mother.
The slide is labelled "British Museum Bibl. Reg. 20 E. IX John Rotz. Book of…

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…

An illustrated religious map of the world showing Adam, Eve and the Serpent at the top, and the four winds.
The slide is labelled "British Museum 20.e.6 Turin Map by Ottino".

Hand drawn and illustrated map of Europe, North Africa and Asia. Seas are coloured in blue ink.
Slide is labelled "Brit Mus. Harley 7182 fol 59 Ptolemy coloured"

Page fro The Cornish Giant book, with illustration of steam engine titled First road trial at Camborne