Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World 1100-1600
Working Bibliography
(NB. this bibliography in no way attempts a complete survey of these fields, but tries
merely to provide some starting points for further study)
European maps
Campbell, Tony, “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500”, in The
History of Cartography. Volume One: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval
Europe and the Mediterranean, ed. J.B. Harley and David Woodward (Chicago, 1987),
370-463
Cattaneo, Angelo, Fra Mauro’s Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice (Turnhout,
2011)
Chekin, L. S., Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography: Inventory, Text, Translation,
and Commentary (Turnhout, 2006)
Edson, Evelyn, Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their
World (London, 1997)
Gautier Dalché, Patrick, ed., La ‘Descriptio mappe mundi’ de Hugues de Saint-Victor.
Texte inédit avec introduction et commentaire (Paris, 1988)
Gautier Dalché, Patrick, “De la glose à la contemplation. Place et fonction de la carte
dans les manuscripts du haut Moyen Age”, Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di
studi sull’alto medioevo 41 (1994) 693-771
Gautier Dalché, Patrick, Carte marine et portulan au XIIe siècle: le Liber de existencia
riveriarum et forma maris nostri Mediterranei (Pise, circa 1200) (Rome, 1995)
Gautier Dalché, Patrick, ed., ‘Décrire le monde et situer les lieux au XIIe siècle:
L’Expositio mappe mundi et la généalogie de la mappemonde de Hereford’, Mélanges de
l’École française de Rome. Antiquité-Moyen Âge 112 (2001)
Gautier Dalché, Patrick, La Géographie de Ptolémée en Occident (IVe-XVIe siècle)
(Turnhout, 2009)
Harvey, P.D.A. “Local and Regional Cartography in Medieval Europe”, in The History of
Cartography. Volume One: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe
and the Mediterranean, 464-501
Harvey, P.D.A., Medieval Maps (London, 1991)
Harvey, P.D.A., ed., The Hereford World Map: Medieval World Maps and their Context.
(London, 2006)
Harvey, P.D.A., Medieval Maps of the Holy Land (London, 2012)
Harley, J.B., and David Woodward, eds, The History of Cartography, volume 1
(Chicago, 1987): Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the
Mediterranean
Harvey, P.D.A., “Local and Regional Cartography in Medieval Europe”, in The History
of Cartography. Volume One: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe
and the Mediterranean, 464-501
Hoogvliet, Margriet, Pictura et Scriptura: Textes, images et herméneutique des Mappae
Mundi (XIIIe-XVIe siècles) (Turnhout, 2007)
Kugler, Hartmut, Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte, 2 vols (Berlin, 2007)
Kupfer, Marcia, ‘Medieval World Maps: Embedded Images, Interpretive Frames’, Word
and Image 10 (1994), 262-288
Lozovsky, Natalia, “The Earth Is Our Book”: Geographical Knowledge in the Latin
West ca. 400-1000 (Ann Arbor, 2000)
Pujades i Bataller, Ramon J., Les Cartes portolanes/Portolan Charts (Barcelona, 2007)
Scafi, Alessandro, Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth (London, 2006)
Vagnon, Emmanuelle, Cartographie et représentations de l'Orient méditerranéen en
Occident (du milieu du XIIIe à la fin du XVe siècle) (Turnhout, 2013)
von den Brincken, Anna-Dorothee, “Mappa mundi und chronographia: Studien zur imago
mundi des abendländischen Mittelalters”, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des
Mittelalters 24 (1968) 118-186.
Westrem, Scott, ed., The Hereford Map: A Transcription and Translation of the Legends
with Commentary (Turnhout, 2002)
Woodward, David, “Medieval Mappaemundi”, in The History of Cartography. Volume
One: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean,
286-370.
Islamic maps
Ahmad, S. Maqbul, “The Cartography of al-Sharīf al-Idrīsī”, in The History of
Cartography. Volume 2.1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian
Societies. Ed. J.B. Harley and David Woodward (Chicago, 1992), 156-174
Casale, Giancarlo, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Oxford, 2010)
Ducène, Jean-Charles, ‘Le delta du Nil dans les cartes du Nuzhat al-muštaq d’al-Idrīsī’,
Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 154 (2004), 57-70
Ducène, Jean-Charles, ‘L’Europe dans la cartographie arabe médiévale’, Belgeo (2008),
251-67
Ducène, Jean-Charles, L’Afrique dans le Uns al-muhadj wa-rawd al-furadj d’al-Idrîsî.
Edition, traduction et commentaire (Leuven, 2010)
Harley, J.B. and David Woodward, eds, The History of Cartography volume 2.1
(Chicago, 1992): Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
Kaplony, Andreas, ‚Ist Europa eine Insel?’, in Europa im Weltbild des Mittelalters:
Kartographische Konzepte, ed. Ingrid Baumgärtner and Hartmut Kugler (Berlin, 2008),
143-56
Johns, Jeremy and Emilie Savage-Smith, “The Book of Curiosities: A Newly Discovered
Series of Islamic Maps.” Imago Mundi 55 (2003) 7-24.
Miller, Konrad, Mappae Arabicae, 6 vols in 3 (Stuttgart, 1926-31)
Pinto, Karen, ‘The Maps Are the Message: Mehmet II’s Patronage of an “Ottoman
Cluster”’, Imago Mundi 63.2 (2011), 155-179
Savage Smith, Emilie, “Celestial Mapping”, in The History of Cartography. Volume 2.1:
Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, 12-70
Tibbetts, Gerald R., “The Beginnings of a Cartographic Tradition”; “The Balkhī School
of Geographers”; “Later Cartographic Developments.” In The History of Cartography.
Volume 2.1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, 90-107;
108-136; 137-155
Comparative/general
Belting, Hans, Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance art and Arab science, trans. Deborah
Lucas Schneider (Belknap, 2011)
Brotton, Jerry, A History of the World in Twelve Maps (London, 2012)
Kaplony, Andreas, ‘The Conversion of the Turks of Central Asia to Islam as Seen by
Arabic and Persian Geography: A Comparative Perspective’, in Islamisation de l’Asie
centrale. Processus locaux d’acculturation du VIIe au XIe siècle, ed. Étienne de la
Vaissière (Paris, 2008), 204-224
Park, Hyunhee, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in
Pre-Modern Asia (Cambridge, 2012)
Saliba, George, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
(Cambridge, Mass, 2007)