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.
Humanist, traveler, island cartographer, archpriest, and codex-hunter.
Maps, manuscripts, and Mediterranean memory.
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.
Cosmography of Ptolemy
Paris, National Library of France, Latin 4802, fol. 125v-126.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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.
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.
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Map of Constantinople and Galata from Buondelmonti's copy of Liber insularum Archipelagi in the Marciana National Library, dated around 1420-1430.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Rhodes, Aegean Sea
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Rhodes, Aegean Sea
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Paros island, Aegean Sea
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Paros island, Aegean Sea
Map of Constantinople by Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Liber insularum Archipelagi. Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Copy of Düsseldorf (1485–1490). The city (from Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia).
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Map of Constantinople by Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Liber insularum Archipelagi. Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Copy of Düsseldorf (1485–1490). The city (from Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia).
A map of Constantinople by Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Liber insularum Archipelagi. Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Düsseldorf copy (1485–1490).🌠
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A map of Constantinople by Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Liber insularum Archipelagi. Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Düsseldorf copy (1485–1490).🌠
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1422), Ios Island, Aegean Sea.
October 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1422), Ios Island, Aegean Sea.
Florence - Laurentian Library, Plut. 29. 25 (planisphere by Enrico Martello, ca. 1488), ff. 66v-67r
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Florence - Laurentian Library, Plut. 29. 25 (planisphere by Enrico Martello, ca. 1488), ff. 66v-67r
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 30. 4, cc. 76v-77r (Tolomeo - Geografia - Spagna)
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 30. 4, cc. 76v-77r (Tolomeo - Geografia - Spagna)
The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, lit. "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.
October 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, lit. "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.
Vatican Apostolic Library, Vatican lat. 5699 (Piero del Massaio, ca. 1450), ff. 120v-121r
October 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Vatican Apostolic Library, Vatican lat. 5699 (Piero del Massaio, ca. 1450), ff. 120v-121r
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Milos island, Aegean Sea.
(Extracts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(Extracts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
October 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Milos island, Aegean Sea.
(Extracts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(Extracts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Ἁγία Σοφία, Hagía Sophía
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ἁγία Σοφία, Hagía Sophía
Étude de draperie Albrecht_Dürer
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Étude de draperie Albrecht_Dürer
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Rhodes, Aegean Sea.
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Rhodes, Aegean Sea.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s 1422 map of Constantinople — transmitted in several manuscript copies now held in European libraries — is the only pre-conquest depiction of the city that can be regarded as faithful to reality. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
October 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s 1422 map of Constantinople — transmitted in several manuscript copies now held in European libraries — is the only pre-conquest depiction of the city that can be regarded as faithful to reality. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Buondelmonti's map of Constantinople from 1422, the only one preceding the Ottoman conquest of 1453.
September 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Buondelmonti's map of Constantinople from 1422, the only one preceding the Ottoman conquest of 1453.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Mykonos Island, Aegean Sea.
September 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Mykonos Island, Aegean Sea.
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius (Sicca Veneria 370 circa - † 430) was a Roman philosopher, grammarian and official who lived at the beginning of the 5th century.
The Universe, the Earth in the centre, surrounded by the classical planets, including the sun and the moon, within the zodiacal signs.
The Universe, the Earth in the centre, surrounded by the classical planets, including the sun and the moon, within the zodiacal signs.
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius (Sicca Veneria 370 circa - † 430) was a Roman philosopher, grammarian and official who lived at the beginning of the 5th century.
The Universe, the Earth in the centre, surrounded by the classical planets, including the sun and the moon, within the zodiacal signs.
The Universe, the Earth in the centre, surrounded by the classical planets, including the sun and the moon, within the zodiacal signs.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Lesbos island, Aegean Sea.
September 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Lesbos island, Aegean Sea.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
September 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Andrea Bianco (15th century, Venice — 15th century, Venice) was an Italian navigator and cartographer who resided on Chios. This is his 1436 world map.
September 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Andrea Bianco (15th century, Venice — 15th century, Venice) was an Italian navigator and cartographer who resided on Chios. This is his 1436 world map.