Title: Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti
First published: 1930
Description: Part 1 of the Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti describes the first cartographic attempts in North Africa and the Mediterranean from the period before Ptolomeus, Part II in four volumes deals with the oldest maps of Africa. Part III in five volumes shows not less than 250 Mappemondes of the Middle Ages in European Collections. Part IV starts with the first documented visits by Europeans in the Inlands and in the last volume Youssof Kamal continues this subject from the period 1375 until 1415, starting with the famous Catalan Atlas until the conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese. This volume contains interesting reproductions of the portolans by Soleri of 1380, the portolan of Naples, of portolans in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, the Pasqualini portolan of 1408 and the depiction of the Mediterranean by di Virga of 1409.
Subjects: Maps, Early maps
Places: Egypt, Africa