Old World Maps

World maps through history. Al-Idrisi’s world map in an 1154 atlas with Arabia on top: Pietro Vesconte's world map, oriented to the east at the top, 14th century: A map based on Ptolemy's Geographia, 1482: Johann Ruysch's map, 1507: Clavdii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete Annotationes Ioannes de Regio Monte