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Cristoforo Buondelmonti (Florence, c.1385 – Rhodes, after 1430) Humanist, traveler, island cartographer, archpriest, and codex-hunter. Maps, manuscripts, and Mediterranean memory.

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · Jul 6

Cristoforo Buondelmonti: Florentine priest, humanist, traveler, and pioneer of island cartography in the early 15th century.
This is a space for historical geography, manuscripts, codices, and maps, images, archival notes, and materials from his own works. You are welcome to connect.

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 5d

Map of Constantinople by Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Liber insularum Archipelagi. Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Copy of Düsseldorf (1485–1490). The city (from Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia).

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 5d

A map of Constantinople by Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Liber insularum Archipelagi. Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. Düsseldorf copy (1485–1490).🌠

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 8d

Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1422), Ios Island, Aegean Sea.

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 13d

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Estuary | Estuaire, Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian, setar; Ablaye Cissoko, kora; Patrick Graham

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 14d

Florence - Laurentian Library, Plut. 29. 25 (planisphere by Enrico Martello, ca. 1488), ff. 66v-67r

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 17d

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 30. 4, cc. 76v-77r (Tolomeo - Geografia - Spagna)

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 17d

The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, lit. "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 17d

Vatican Apostolic Library, Vatican lat. 5699 (Piero del Massaio, ca. 1450), ff. 120v-121r

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 18d

Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Milos island, Aegean Sea.
(Extracts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 20d

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Zorba The Greek Dance - The Greek Orchestra Emmetron Music HD

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 21d

Ἁγία Σοφία, Hagía Sophía

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 21d

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I mulini dei ricordi

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 21d

When snails ruled the earth.......

BL Add MS 49622, f.162v

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 21d

New issue of Greek and Roman Musical Studies Vol. 13, No. 2 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 22d

Étude de draperie Albrecht_Dürer

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Zack🥀 @zackrose2.bsky.social · 22d

That perfect dot from Kardinal Rose!

#roses #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #pnwgardening

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Rob @robertchur.bsky.social · 22d

Footpath #mobilephotography #photography #arch

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 22d

Don McLean🎼

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 22d

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 23d

Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420), Island of Rhodes, Aegean Sea.

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Andrew Wyeth @andrewwyeth.bsky.social · 24d

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 24d

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The Tale Of Sweet Sir Galahad (Joan Baez)

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · 25d

Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s 1422 map of Constantinople — transmitted in several manuscript copies now held in European libraries — is the only pre-conquest depiction of the city that can be regarded as faithful to reality. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · Sep 29

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Fabrizio De André - Creuza de ma (Live)

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Cristoforo Buondelmonti – Maps & Cartography @bondelmontimapsxvc.bsky.social · Sep 29

Buondelmonti's map of Constantinople from 1422, the only one preceding the Ottoman conquest of 1453.