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A study of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps.

The first detailed study of the terrestrial globe of Johann Schoner (1477-1547), a cosmographer and teacher of mathematics in Nurnberg, which he made as part of the first pair of celestial and terrestrial globes in 1515. The globe is not much younger than the earliest surviving terrestrial globe from 1492. The globe is an important part of early 16th-cent. cartography, and an important chapter in the cartographic history of the New World. Transcribing all of the toponyms and legends on the globe has entailed an examination of textual, catographic, and graphical sources which has shed light on the relationship of the globe to maps, globes, and books of the period. "A work of consummate scholarship." Illustrations.

This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic study of cartographic cartouches, the most important element in interpreting historic maps--and the most visually engaging. It explores four centuries of cartouches, focusing on examples with particularly rich symbolism.

By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way.

This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author.

First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.