description
Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula. Ex recentibus confecta onservationisbus (A Universal Map of the Known World. From Recent Observations)
Rome, in a fan-shaped conical projection. The complete map image shows a red box whose area is featured in a detail image.
Not “Lithuanians” or “Lithuanian Pagans,” in Latin, but “Lithuania” as Litvania, a political entity alongside, and separate from, “Polonia.” The political union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania would not occur until 1569’s Union of Lublin.
Year
1507
Author
Johannes Ruysch (Dutch mapmaker/astronomer)
Sources
US Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
