Abbozzo Del Mappamondo Di F: Mauro Camaldolese Cosmografo Incomparabile alla Meta del Sec. XV. Gia' Esistnet Neall Bilblioteca Di S. Michele Di Murano Ora Nella Marciana. (to accompany) Sulle antiche mappe idro - geografiche lavorate in Venezia.

• Main Authors: Zurla, Placido, 1769-1834, Mauro, Fra
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Tipografia Picotti 1806
• Subjects: Exploration; Greenland; Iceland; North Atlantic; Lapland
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Uncolored circular planisphere world map of Fra Mauro Camaldolese. Described and illustrated by Placido Zurla, the map is believed to have been made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro, one of the few extent early facsimiles of early world maps. Fra Mauro's pre-Columbian World map is considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography. The original Mauro map was discovered in the monastery of San Michel in Isola, Murano, where the Camaldolese cartographer had his studio. Relief shown pictorially. Includes 4 circular insets. An ancient hydro-geographical work in Venice, by Placido Zurla in 96 pages of descriptive text, and three uncolored maps. Including: 1- Abbozzo della mappa dei viaggi di Marco Polo . 2- Carta Da Navegar De Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Fvrono In Tramontana Lano M.CCC. LXXX. 3- Abbozzo Del Mappamondo Di F: Mauro Camaldolese Cosmografo Incomparabile alla Meta del Sec. XV. Text and maps includes: Marco Polo's travels, map showing his exploration routes in East Asia, also shows northern part of America, Sierra Nevada, etc., voyages of Nicolo and Antonio Zeno in North Atlantic, map showing North Atlantic, Greenland, Iceland and Lapland, etc., and the last map is a circular planisphere map of the world, made by Fra Mauro.