FIFTEENTH CENTURY MAPS 



is, on the whole, of a very antiquated type, but its image of the 

 North seems more modern, and it has the same mountain chain 

 along the north coast of the continent as Vesconte's map. The 

 " Sallust " map at Geneva, of about 1450, is also antiquated, but 



North-western portion of Andreas Walsperger's mappamundi 



(of 1448). Most of the names are omitted. (The south should 



be at the top) 



its Baltic resembles the compass-charts, and the two mountain 

 ridges, one along the north coast of the continent, the other 

 parallel with it in the interior, strongly recall Vesconte's map 

 of the world. On the other hand, the connection by water be- 

 tween the Baltic and Maeotis (the Sea of Azov) is evidently de- 

 rived from an earlier age (cf. p. 199). Out in the ocean to the 

 north-west and west of Norway lie four islands. Bjornbo sup- 

 poses [191 o, p. 75] that the two more northerly of these may 



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