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Muhammad al-Idrisi

Muhammad al-Idrisi was a prominent 12th-century Arab cartographer renowned for his creation of the Tabula Rogeriana. Thi...

Medieval 12TH Century Islamic Arab

9.4 Excellent

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Fra Mauro

The Fra Mauro map is a meticulously detailed world map produced in approximately 1450 by Venetian monk Fra Mauro. This r...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Abraham Cresques

Abraham Cresques was a medieval cartographer born in fourteenth-century Mallorca. He is recognized for his creation of t...

Medieval 14TH Century Majorcan Catalan Jewish

8.8 Great

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Jia Dan

Jia Dan was a Chinese scholar, cartographer, and government official who lived during the Tang dynasty in the 8th and ea...

Medieval Chinese 8TH Century World Map

8.5 Great

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Zhu Siben

Zhu Siben (1273–1337) was a Chinese cartographer of the Yuan dynasty who created the "Guangyu Tu," or Enlarged Terrestri...

Medieval Chinese 13TH Century Atlas

8.5 Great

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Pietro Vesconte

Pietro Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer active during the late 13th and early 14th centuries, specifically documented...

Italian Medieval Venetian 14TH Century

8.5 Great

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Al-Masudi

Al-Masudi (c. 896-956 CE) was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer whose comprehensive work 'Muruj al-Dhahab' (T...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.4 Great

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Petrus Vesconte

Petrus Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer who was professionally active during the late 13th and early 14th centuries....

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

8.4 Great

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Ibn Hawqal

Ibn Hawqal was a 10th-century Arab Muslim geographer, traveler, and writer who spent roughly three decades exploring the...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.3 Great

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Angelino Dulcert

Angelino Dulcert was a 14th-century cartographer associated with the Majorcan school of mapmaking, a center of cartograp...

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

8.3 Great

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi was a Persian polymath born in the ninth century near Balkh, in present-day Afghanista...

Medieval Regional Islamic 10TH Century

8.2 Great

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Benincasa Grazioso

Grazioso Benincasa was a fifteenth-century Italian mariner and cartographer from Ancona who produced manuscript portolan...

Italian Medieval Adriatic 15TH Century

8.2 Great

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Jehuda Cresques

Jehuda Cresques was a Majorcan Jewish cartographer, also known after conversion as Jaume Riba, and a son of the mapmaker...

Medieval 14TH Century Portolan Majorcan

8.2 Great

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Richard of Haldingham

Richard of Haldingham, also identified as Richard de Bello, is traditionally associated with the creation of the Herefor...

Medieval English Monastery 13TH Century

8.2 Great

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Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris (c. 1200–1259) was an English Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey who served as a chronicler, cartographer...

Medieval English Monastery 13TH Century

8.0 Great

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Catherine Delano-Smith

Catherine Delano-Smith is a British cartographic historian renowned for her extensive research on prehistoric and mediev...

Academic 20TH Century Medieval British

8.0 Great

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Karl von Spruner

Karl von Spruner (1803–1892) was a Bavarian military officer and historical cartographer. He is best known for his Histo...

German Academic 19TH Century Medieval

7.8 Good

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Evelyn Edson

Evelyn Edson is an American historian of cartography and a professor emerita at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She...

American Academic 20TH Century Medieval

7.8 Good

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Patrick Gautier Dalché

Patrick Gautier Dalché is a French medievalist and scholar affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifi...

French Contemporary Academic Medieval

7.8 Good

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Claudius Clavus

Claudius Clavus, also known as Claudius Claussøn Swart (1388-?), was a Danish geographer and cartographer active in the...

Danish Medieval Scandinavia 15TH Century

7.6 Good