The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453: In the Collections of the American Geographical Society — John Shaqi
The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453: In the Collections of the American Geographical SocietyWright, John Kirtland
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The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453: In the Collections of the American Geographical Society
Wright, John Kirtland
Early maps; Leardo, Giovanni
Con.: _Libro del conosçimiento de todos los reynos y tierras ... escrito
por un franciscano español à mediados del siglo XIV._ Our references are
to the pages of Sir Clements Markham’s translation and edition (of
Jiménez de la Espada’s edition, q. v.) entitled _Book of the Knowledge
of all the Kingdoms...._, Hakluyt Society [Publs.], Ser. 2, Vol. 29,
London, 1912.
Cordier, CA: Henri Cordier, _L’Extrême-Orient dans l’atlas catalan de
Charles V, Roi de France_, in _Bulletin de géographie historique et
descriptive_, Vol. 10, 1895, pp. 19-64.
Cordier, Ser M. P.: Henri Cordier, _Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to
Sir Henry Yule’s Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and
Discovery_, London and New York, 1920.
FA: See Ptolemy.
Fischer: Theobold Fischer, _Sammlung mittelalterlicher Welt- und
Seekarten italienischen Ursprungs und aus italienischen Bibliotheken und
Archiven herausgegeben und erläutert_, Venice, 1886.
Text accompanying Raccolta.
Gerini: G. E. Gerini, _Researches on Ptolemy’s Geography of Eastern
Asia_ (_Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago_), constituting
_Asiatic Society Monographs No. 1_, London, 1909.
Hallb: Ivar Hallberg, _L’Extrême Orient dans la littérature et la
cartographie de l’Occident des XIII^e, XIV^e, et XV^e siècles: étude sur
l’histoire de la géographie_, Göteborg, 1906.
Alphabetical list of place names throughout Asia as a whole (not
merely the Far East) with variant forms, references to the sources,
and identifications.
Hamy: E. T. Hamy, _Les origines de la cartographie de l’Europe
septentrionale_, in _Bulletin de géographie historique et descriptive_,
Vol. 3, 1888, pp. 333-432.
Jiménez de la Espada: Márcos Jiménez de la Espada, editor, _Libro del
conosçimiento de todos los reynos y tierras ... escrito por un
franciscano español á mediados del siglo XIV_, Madrid, 1877.
See also Con.
Kret., CE: See CE.
Kret., Port.: Konrad Kretschmer, _Die italienischen Portolane des
Mittelalters, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik_,
constituting _Veröffentlichungen, Instit. für Meereskunde und
Geographisches Instit. an der Universität Berlin_, No. 13, Berlin, 1909.
This fundamental study includes a descriptive list of the principal
portolan charts and a list of the names shown on them along the coasts
of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, with identifications with modern
names.
La R.: Charles de La Roncière, _La découverte de l’Afrique au moyen âge,
cartographes et explorateurs_, Vols. 1 and 2, Cairo, 1925.
Lelewel: Joachim Lelewel, _Géographie du moyen age_, 5 vols. and atlas,
Brussels, 1852-1857.
Mauro: Fra Mauro’s map of the world, c. 1458, in Doge’s Palace, Venice.
Much reduced photographic reproduction in Raccolta, No. 15; copy in
Santarem, Atlas.
See Zurla; Kret., Port., p. 140.
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