A landmark medieval mappa mundi, the 1457 Genoese world map survives here as an early 20th-century facsimile issued by the Hispanic Society of America in New York (1912). As a conceptual world map, it reflects late medieval European views of the Earth rather than modern geography, offering an evocative window into pre-Renaissance cartographic thinking.

Features / Details

• Original Date: 1457

• Map Type/Genre: Mappae mundi; world map

• Edition: Facsimile published by the Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1912

• Notes: Title from E. L. Stevenson’s text; lower-right imprint “E. O. Cockayne, Boston”

• Condition (LOC copy): Mounted on cloth and laminated

• Publication Info (original facsimile): [New York] : Hispanic Society of America, [1912]

Source & Rights
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
You will receive a newly made, high-resolution fine-art print of this historical map (not the original artifact).