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The Catalan Atlas is an illuminated world map produced around 1375 and commonly attributed to the Majorcan Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques and his workshop. Preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, it combines Mediterranean portolan-chart conventions with geographical, political, comm...
The Fra Mauro Map is a large circular world map produced in Venice around the middle of the 15th century and traditionally associated with the Camaldolese monk Fra Mauro. Drawn on parchment and densely annotated in Venetian, it incorporates information from classical, Islamic, European, and traveler...
The Tabula Rogeriana is a world map created by the geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi for Roger II, the Norman king of Sicily, in 1154. It accompanied al-Idrisi's extensive geographical text and synthesized information from earlier writings, travelers, and contemporary observation. Like many medieval Isl...
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a large medieval world map made on a single sheet of animal skin around 1300 and preserved at Hereford Cathedral in England. It presents geography through a Christian historical framework, placing Jerusalem near the center and showing biblical events, peoples, cities, ani...
The Peutinger Table, or Tabula Peutingeriana, is a medieval parchment copy of an ancient Roman route map showing the road network across Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia. Its extremely elongated format distorts geographic shapes so that roads, settlements, distances, rivers, and staging point...
The Ebstorf Map was a large medieval mappamundi associated with the Benedictine convent of Ebstorf in northern Germany and generally dated to the thirteenth century. It presented the known world within a Christian theological framework, with Jerusalem near the center and Christ's head, hands, and fe...
The Sala del Mappamondo, or Room of the World Map, is a frescoed room in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, the pentagonal residence designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Painted around 1574 under Giovanni Antonio da Varese, its walls present maps of the world and majo...
A map purportedly depicting a pre-Columbian Norse discovery of North America; widely considered a modern forgery following extensive scientific analysis.
