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The final volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional western Middle Ages.

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There are five surviving manuscripts of Henricus Martellus's Insularium Illustratum (Account of the Islands of the Mediterranean).

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An important cartographer whose appreciation of the utility of cartouches has not heretofore been recognized is Henricus Martellus, a German who.

Florence, Italy, 1480-1496[?])

geography.

Henricus Martellus was probably Heinrich Hammer and assuredly was of German birth, since the referred to himself as “Germanus.” He is a mysterious personality of whom no mention has ever been found except for the remarkable maps that he signed with his full name.

It is established that he worked in Florence in the closing decades of the fifteenth century and was closely associated with the printer, engraver, and map publisher Francesco Rosselli.

Germanus’ contribution is in the maps that he drew, remarkable not only for their high artistic quality but also for the new geographical concepts that they represented.

His works include two sets of maps drawn to illustrate Ptolemy’s Geography, five codices of an Insularium, or Book of Islands, and a large world map (43” by 75”)

Roberto Almagià states that Germanus was the first mapmaker to append to the traditional set of maps illustrating the work of