Dubious History¹

T꞊OMAP - The Old Maps Annotations Project

Cotton World Map - c. 1000

• Imagery: British Library
• Annotations: W3C Annotation file
• See also: Virtual Mappa 2.0
• References:
  • Virtual Mappa, eds. Martin Foys, Heather Wacha et al. Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies, 2020: https://sims2.digitalmappa.org/36. DOI: 10.21231/ef21-ev82.

Map of Mahmud al-Kashgari - c. 1070

• Annotations: W3C Annotation file
• References:
  • Jim Siebold, World Map of al-Kashgari, available online at myoldmaps.com (pdf)
  • Peter B. Golden, The Turkic World in Mahmud al-Kashghari, 2015.
  • Lyazzat Ayanovna Nakhanova, Lexical-Semantic Analysis of the Ancient Turkic Place Names, 2013.

Psalter World Map - c. 1260

• Imagery: British Library
• Annotations: W3C Annotation file
• See also: Virtual Mappa 2.0
• References:
  • Virtual Mappa, eds. Martin Foys, Heather Wacha et al. Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies, 2020: https://sims2.digitalmappa.org/36. DOI: 10.21231/ef21-ev82.

Genoese map - 1457

Note: In progress.

This version of the map is a reproduction made by the Hispanic Society of America in the early 20th century. Scans of the original map exist, but are of much lower quality.

• Imagery: Library of Congress
• Annotations: W3C Annotation file
• References:
  • Edward Luther Stevenson, Theobald Fischer; Genoese World Map 1457, New York [The De Vinne press], 1912.
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