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Contact: Christopher Baruth
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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Caption: The Mappamundi, the oldest original map in the AGSL holdings, was produced in 1452 by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo. The circular map, considered the finest example of a medieval wall map in the Western Hemisphere, shows the known world consisting of only Europe, Asia and Africa.
Credit: AGS Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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