Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Frankfurt am Main Digitation source: Sebastian MunsterCosmographiae Universalis 674-675Edition: Latin Date: 1550 Place: BaselImprint: H. Petri via
How a map changed the world “Created in 1815, the world’s first geologic map measures 10 by 16 feet (3 by 5 meters) and illustrates the individual rock layers that underlie Great Britain. One of only two U.S. copies is now on public display for the first time at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in New York State.”
Illuminated Manuscript, Map of the eastern Mediterranean coast and city of Tripoli (Ṭarābulus–i Shām) (Lebanon) from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.317b Originally composed in 932 AH / 1525 CE and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I (“The Magnificent”), this great work by Piri Reis (d. 962 AH / 1555 CE) on navigation was later revised and expanded. The present manuscript, made mostly in the late 11th AH / 17th CE century, is based on the later expanded version with some 240 exquisitely executed maps and portolan charts. They include a world map (fol.41a) with the outline of the Americas, as well as coastlines (bays, capes, peninsulas), islands, mountains and cities of the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea. The work starts with the description of the coastline of Anatolia and the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Peloponnese peninsula and eastern and western coasts of the Adriatic Sea. It then proceeds to describe the western shores of Italy, southern France, Spain, North Africa, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, western Anatolia, various islands north of Crete, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus and the Black Sea. It ends with a map of the shores of the the Caspian Sea (fol.374a). See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=19195 (by William Noel)
scipsy: Illuminated Manuscript Map of Western hemisphere within a windrose, from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.24b (by William Noel)
darksilenceinsuburbia: La Terre au centre des sphéres de l’universe - copie du XIII siécle
Stratford On Avon Source: Brown, J. Ross: “Stratford on Avon” (1908) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl
Nautical atlas France, 1538. Vellum, 39 leaves, 440 x 312 mm. - 129 A 24, fol. 16r http://www.kb.nl
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