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Amendments are made to this site weekly, sometimes daily, so it is always worth re-checking a page you saw earlier.

You can also search across the whole of this site The following is a list of those pages that have been created, extended or heavily amended, in recent months. Only the latest update is listed for 'Web Articles' and 'Images of early maps on the web'

forthcoming:

Portolan chart pages in process of amendment, starting March 2011

Table of 'Significant Names'- those that first appear on portolan charts after 1311 (and are repeated regularly thereafter) or those that disappear before 1600

[NB this is a large Microsoft Office Word 2003 table which opens separately]

A large new section of toponymical analysis, comprising tables, charts and commentary, due early in 2012

Significant post-publication additions and corrections to the portolan chart pages (started April 2011)

For the latest developments in the wider world see General map news and Theft news

Images of early maps on the web [latest additions, 2 February 2012]. If you want to select only those added recently, see the note at the head of that page
Web Articles [latest additions, 2 February 2012]. If you want to select only those added recently, see the note at the head of that page
J B Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography - 2012 awards [New - 16 January 2012]
'Maps and Society': 2011-2012 programme of talks at the Warburg Institute, London (the Twenty-first series) [New - 24 August 2011]
'Searching for Early Maps: Use of Online Library Catalogs' (by Joel Kovarsky) [Revised - August 2011]

Portolan Charts
A critical re-examination of early portolan charts, with a reassessment of their replication and seaboard function
(a book-length collection of essays, notes and analysis on 40 web 'pages') [March 2011 - ongoing]

Comprising:

~ Corrections and additions to the 1986 Census and the chapter in the History of Cartography (1987)
~ A detailed study of the colours and shapes used for islands and estuaries, leading to a wide range of new conclusions about consistency, 'accuracy', attributions and workshop practice
~ Analysis of the work of Grazioso Benincasa
~ An ongoing, previously unpublished, toponymical analysis over four centuries
~ A comprehensive post-1986 bibliography

for previous additions see What was New
(where you will also find a general note about the site's history, its origin in 1996, and its continuing archive)

Site Move. After more than six years at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research, the site moved to a new host ammonet.com. All the external links now open in a new window (thanks to Jack Benson). Just click on the link, close it when you have finished, and you will return to where you were on this site [August 2003]

Please also use and contribute to the page with updated contact information for researchers listed in Who' Who in the History of Cartography: the International Guide to the Subject (D9)

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