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

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.

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

This page is annotated 'Agnes from EAA 1883'

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

Men with baskets of fish landing from small boats.
Harbour wall behind

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."

Beach scene with baskets and fish boxes.
Wagons and boats and boys in the foreground

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.

Probably Fragdon

Probably Newlyn

Antiquarian and Liberal Politician.
Born at Castle Horneck, Penzance, the only son of Samuel Borlase and his wife Mary Ann (nee Copeland).
His great great grandfather was Dr. William Borlase, Cornish Historian.

In Mounts Bay.
Showing an aerial view towards Newlyn.

From over St Michaels Mount