Old representations of Galata
1400 - cristoforo buondelmonti Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1386 - c. 1430) was an Italian Franciscan priest and traveler, and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world. He left his native city of Florence , around 1414 C.E. in order to travel, mainly in the Aegean Islands. He visited Constantinople in the 1420s. He is the author of two historical-geographic works: the Descriptio insulae Cretae (1417) and the Liber insularum Archipelagi (1420). These two books are a combination of geographical information and contemporary charts and sailing directions. The last one contains the oldest surviving map of Constantinople. 1410 - cristoforo buondelmonti hand manuscrit Each representations as different buildings, update where often added in new copy, but also some of them where not correct... 1420 - cristoforo buondelmonti constantinople Greek copy in an book writen in Latin (topkapi saray library) 14...