Mappæ Mundi
The Martellus World Map
The world as Columbus would have known it.
- Map
- Map of the world
- Mapmaker
- Henricus Martellus (Heinrich Hammer)
- Date
- c. 1489
- Held by
- Yale University Library · via Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Henricus Martellus, also known as Heinrich Hammer, drew this map of the world around 1489. It has been called the map of the world of Christopher Columbus, because it shows the world a learned European could have known in the years before the voyage of 1492. The map is held at Yale, and this version joins two separate photographs of it into one. Read it as the last picture of the Old World drawn by itself: three continents, the sea around them, and nothing yet on the other side.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Yale University Library · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
