Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, produced in Venice. Inscriptions in Italian (Venetian dialect) and Portuguese. On the upper border of the chart is a scale of miles which represents 400 miles. For a discussion of this chart see: Cortesão, Armando. The nautical chart of 1424. Coimbra : University of Coimbra, 1954.
Creator:
Pizzigano, Zuane
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This fragment of an unknown planisphere is of special interest for its portrayal of Africa. Area shown extends from the British and Canary Islands on the west to the Red and Black Seas on the east.
Created:
1450
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
World map from Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia (Ulm, 1482): the first edition of Ptolemy printed in Germany, and the first edition in which woodcut maps appear.
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Contributor:
D'Angelo, Jacopo. tr.; Nicolaus Germanus, 15th cent. ed.
Created:
1482
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.