The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453 / In the Collections of the American Geographical Society

Chapter 40: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

The author presents a close study and color reproduction of a mid-fifteenth-century Venetian world map by Giovanni Leardo, transcribing its calendar and inscription and describing the map disk. He surveys Leardo’s sources and interprets regional depictions of Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Europe, with attention to place names, coastlines, and medieval cartographic conventions. Extensive notes and an appendix provide detailed, section-by-section commentary on individual regions and features. A final technical note outlines the processes and considerations involved in reproducing the original map for the volume.

KEY MAPS

Fig. 4—General key map. The numbers correspond to those of the main center heads in the commentary on pp. 32-60.

Fig. 5—Detailed key map: northeastern section. The numbers in this and in Figs. 6-9 correspond to the Arabic numbers on pp. 32-60.

Fig. 6—Detailed key map: east-central section.

Fig. 7—Detailed key map: southeastern section.

Fig. 8—Detailed key map: northwestern section.

Fig. 9—Detailed key map: west-central section.

Fig. 10—Detailed key map: southwestern section.

Transcriber’s Notes

Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
Corrected a few palpable typographical errors.
In the Detailed Contents, broke paragraphs up so that each number (label) is on a separate line.
In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.