Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography
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Cristoforo Buondelmonti (Florence, c.1385 – Rhodes, after 1430) Humanist, traveler, island cartographer, archpriest, and codex-hunter. Maps, manuscripts, and Mediterranean memory.
Bridlington Sailing cobles Madeleine Isabella, Avail and Three Brothers August 2018
A weeping willow in Garfagnana - Lucca
Map of Atlantis, from Plato and Diodorus, Paris, circa 1775, Paris, BnF, Maps and Cartographic Plans.
Year 1934. Małgorzata Bourke-White.
A wondrous 1000yrs old Juniper in Morning Calm Arboretum -Korea
Trieste photographer Franco Pace and his 'Magic of Sailing'
1,000 years old Fromager Tree (Silk-Cotton Tree) in Missirah, Senegal
Clouds of sail, that's what it took to move them along
Cristoforo Buondelmonti Cristoforo Buondelmonti, View of Constantinople, in the Liber Insularum Archipelagi, copied by Niccolò Ugolini, ca. 1470 (bncf)
🎼12th century Byzantium from the Sea of Marmara✨
Ship in the Clouds ✨ Jean Sebastien Rossbach
Samarkand around 1450. The city stood as one of the greatest cultural, scientific, and commercial centers of the Islamic world—adorned with magnificent madrasas, bustling markets, and scholars from across Eurasia. As a key hub on the Silk Road, symbolized learning, architecture, and imperial power.
Godfrid von Kempen, active 1570-1597 Map of Constantinople (1572)
Johannes van Loon (1611 - 1686) Pas-caerte van Groenland, ysland, Straet Davids en Ian Mayen eyland. This rare map illustrates the waters between northern Europe and Canada (then New France) and centers on Greenland and Iceland. Its purpose was to serve as an informed and accurate navigational tool.
Benozzo Gozzoli, also known as Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Scandicci, 1420 – Pistoia, 4 October 1497). Journey of the Magi (East Wall), Magi Chapel of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, 1459–1461.
The world map from Leinhart Holle's 1482 edition of Nicolaus Germanus's emendations to Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography
Modern map of France by Pietro del Massaio and Hugues Commineau, circa 1470-1480. Cosmography of Ptolemy Paris, National Library of France, Latin 4802, fol. 125v-126.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Thera (Santorini), Aegean Sea.
Map of Constantinople and Galata from Buondelmonti's copy of Liber insularum Archipelagi in the Marciana National Library, dated around 1420-1430.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Rhodes, Aegean Sea