Digitale Quellen und Texte zur Kartographiegeschichte | Digital sources and texts on the history of cartography

Besondere Empfehlungen | Special recommendations
- Weltkarte / Mappamondo di Fra Mauro (ca. 1460) | Fra Mauro's World Map
  - Fra Mauro's World Map.
    Eine umfassende Website mit einem hochauflösenden Faksimile und verschiedenen Einführungen (en) | A comprehensive website with a high resolution facsimile and various introductions
    (Historical context; interactive exploration; cosmography and sources; reception; mappae mundi; designing the world; land and sea)
  - Fra Mauro's Map of the World.
    Eine Webseite zur interaktiven Exploration der Fra Mauro Weltkarte | A website for interactive exploration of Fra Mauro's World Map
  - Trascrizione integrale delle iscrizioni del mappamondo di Fra Mauro (ca. 1450) conservato presso la Biblioteca Marciana di Venezia di Piero Falchetta [PDF]
    Vollständige Transkription der Inschriften auf Fra Mauros Weltkarte | Complete transcription of the inscriptions on Fra Mauro's World Map
  - Fra Mauro's World
    Fra Mauros Weltkarte als Globus (3D-Modell) | Fra Mauro's World Map as a globe (3D model)
- A Land Beyond the Stars. Amerigo Vespucci and Martin Waldseemüller's Map of the World.
  enthält zahlreiche Texte und Videos zur Geschichte der Kartographie (en) | contains many texts and video clips on the history of cartography
  (Historical context; interactive exploration; "Cosmographiae Introductio"; imago mundi; the new world; the ancient world; the route to the Indies; Catai and Cipango; the earth; the ocean; the sky; digital library)
- Eine mögliche Vorlage für den Behaim Globus : Die Weltkarte von Henricus Martellus (Beinecke Library, Yale University) |
  A possible blueprint for the Behaim globe : The world map of Henricus Martellus
  van Duzer, C.: Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491). Springer, 2019.
  - Video presentation
Allgemein | General
- e-Perimetron : The international quarterly e-journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps
- Kovarsky, Joel : Web Resources for Map Collectors and Enthusiasts
- Harley and Woodward: The History of Cartography. Vol. 1-3, 6. Chicago UP [PDF]
- Map History / History of Cartography (WWW Virtual Library)
- Vogel, Klaus A.: Sphaera terrae - Das mittelalterliche Bild der Erde und die kosmographische Revolution (Diss. Phil.) Göttingen, 1995
- Levenson, J.A. (ed.): Encompassing the Globe. Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Smithsonian, 2007
Antike | Antiquity
- Ptolemy: The Geography (LacusCurtius)
- Strabo: The Geography (LacusCurtius)
- Cicero: Somnium Scipionis
- Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius: Commentariorum in Somnium Scipionis
- Pomponius Mela: De Chorographia (The Latin Library)
- Pomponius Mela: Chorographia
- Ancient Ports. A catalogue of Ancient Coastal Settlements, Ports and Harbours
  Ein Katalog antiker Häfen und Küstensiedlungen
Mittelalter und frühe Neuzeit | Middle Ages and early modern times
- Connolly, Daniel K. : Imagined Pilgrimage in the Itinerary Maps of Matthew Paris
- Johannes de Sacrobosco : De sphaera (English translation: Lynn Thorndike)
- Robertus Grosseteste : De sphaera (Bibliotheca Augustana, lat.)
- Miller, Konrad: Mappae mundi. Die ältesten Weltkarten. 6 Bde. Stuttgart: Roth, 1895
- Hereford Mappa Mundi
  - Arrowsmith, Sarah: Hereford Cathedral's Medieval World Map [PDF]
  - Factum Foundation: The Hereford Mappa Mundi (3D scan)
- Ebstorfer Weltkarte
  - EbsKart: Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Univ. Lüneburg)
  - Warnke, Martin: Et mundus, hoc est homo [PDF]
  - Kugler, Hartmut: Himmelsrichtungen und Erdregionen auf mittelalterlichen Weltkarten
    (Vortrag an der Katholischen Akademie, Hamburg, Dezember 2003) [PDF]
- Genoese World Map (1457)
  Eine Webseite zur interaktiven Exploration der Genuesischen Weltkarte | A website for interactive exploration of the Genoese World Map
- Metcalf, Alida C.: Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500
- Der Deutsche Ptolemäus (unbekannter Autor, Nürnberg, um 1490) | The so called "German Ptolemy" (Anonymous, Nuremberg, ca. 1490)
  Transkription und Faksimile
- Hartmann Schedel: Buch der Cronicken (Weltchronik) / Liber cronicarum (Nürnberg 1492, 1493) | Nuremberg Chronicle
  - Wikipedia (de) | (en)
  - Reske, C.: Schedelsche Weltchronik
  - Schedel, Hartmann / Wolgemut, Michael [Illustrator] / Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm [Illustrator]: Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mudi, Nuremberge, Consummatu[m] autem duodecima mensis Julij. Anno salutis n[ost]re. 1493 [1493.07.12.] [HC 14508 - BSB-Ink S-195 - GW M40784 - ISTC is00307000 Latin
  - Schedel, Hartmann / Alt, Georg / Wolgemut, Michael: Das buch der Cronicken vnd gedechtnus wirdigern geschichte[n], vo[n] anbegyn[n] d[er] werlt bis auf dise vnßere zeit, Nürmberg, 1493.12.23. [BSB-Ink S-197 - GW M40796 - ISTC is00309000] Deutsch
Portolane (Seekarten) | Portolans (Sea Charts)
- Campbell, Tony: A Critical Re-examination of Portolan Charts
- MEDEA-CHART database
- Gaspar, Joaquim Alves: From the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean to the Latitude Chart of the Atlantic - Cartometric Analysis and Modeling [PDF]
- Periplus: Trascrizione comparata dei toponimi costieri della carta nautica del Mediterraneo e Mar Nero (fine sec. XIV) del ms. It. IV, 1912 (=10057) della Biblioteca Marciana [PDF]
- Periplus Adriaticus: Elenco comparato dei toponimi costieri dell'Adriatico (isole escluse) di quarantacinque carte e atlanti nautici italiani manoscritti dei secoli XIV e XV / Comparative list of the place-names along the Adriatic coastlines (islands excluded) from forty-five Italian manuscript portolan charts and atlases of the 14th and 15th Centuries di Piero Falchetta [PDF]
- Gautier Dalché, P.: Carte marine et portulan au XIIe siècle. Le Liber de Existencia Riverierarum et Forma Maris Nostri Mediterranei. (Pise, circa 1200). École Française de Rome, No. 203, 1995
- Portolano per i naviganti (Venezia: Bernardino Rizo de Novaria, 1490. Hain 13302. Facsimile, BNF/Gallica)
Erzählungen und Reiseberichte | Narratives and travel stories
- Europäische Mönche auf Reisen nach Asien | European monks travelling to Asia
  - The Journey of Friar John of Pian de Carpine to the Court of Kuyuk Khan, 1245-1247 (Translated by William Woodville Rockhill, 1900)
  - Texts of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis
  - William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols
- Marco Polo
  - Marco Polo. Le Devisement dou Monde. Eine Webseite zur interaktiven Exploration des Berichts | A website for interactive exploration of the report
  - The Travels of Marco Polo, Vol. 1 // Vol.2 (Project Gutenberg) --- see also (Wikipedia)
  - Marco Polo. (Biblioteca Italiana)
    Input "Polo, Marco" in "Autori" liefert mehrere Ausgaben | provides several editions
  - Yule, Henry: The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East (1903)
    [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2]
- Columbus, Christophorus : Epistola de insulis nuper inventis

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