Influential map of the Holy Land from a 14th century manuscript

Medieval map of the Holy Land, orientated with north to the left, as drawn by Pietro Vesconte (fl. 1310-30) for Marino Sanudo's 'Liber Secretorum Fidelibus de Crucis' (c.1320), a manuscript work presented to Pope Clement V to encourage a new crusade. Vesconte's map was highly influential: it was the source for the 'modern' maps of the Holy Land in editions of Ptolemy's 'Geographia'. However this engraving was the first time that the original map was published unadapted.