I love maps from the Middle Ages, and I'm going to try to post a whole bunch of these on this thread. Here are a few cool ones I just found done by Sebastian Munster in 1540-1560
Paris 1550
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... forest.jpg
Frankfurt, 1550
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... r_1550.jpg
Speyer, 1550
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... peyer.jpeg
Southern Poland
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... nstera.jpg
Poland, north
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... salis_.png
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Maps!
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Maps!
by Galloglaich » Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:09 pm
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Re: Maps!
by Galloglaich » Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:38 am
World map made by arab cartographer for Roger of Sicily, 1154 AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rogeriana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rogeriana
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Re: Maps!
by Daeruin » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:10 pm
That is awesome. I love how Sicily is dramatically oversized. That cartographer knew who his patron was, for sure. 
I wish I could read the labels on the map. I'm assuming the large island blob near the top left is supposed to be England.
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