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resentation of Constantinople in Christopher Buondelmonti’s Liber insularum archipelagi’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87:1 (1997): 72–102, at 73; and Hilary Louise Turner, ‘Christopher Buondelmonti: adventurer, explorer, and cartographer’, in Géographie du monde au moyen âge et à la Renaissance, ed. Monique Pelletier (Paris, Éditions, du CTHS, 1989), 207–216, at 209. 5. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAL 2383, fol. 8r (c.1400–1500). 6. Turner, ‘Christopher Buondelmonti’ (see note 4), 209. 7. For a mapless Greek copy, see the translation made in 1897 by Émile Legrand now in Instanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, Ms. Seraglio gr. 24) into French. 8. Veronica della Dora, ‘Mapping a holy quasi-island: Mount Athos in early Renaissance isolarii’, Imago Mundi 60:2 (2008): 139–65, at 141–42. 9. See in particular J. B, Harley, ‘Maps, knowledge, and power’, in The New Nature of Maps, ed. Paul Laxton (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 52–81. 10. Image in the vulgar Italian manuscript in the Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ross. 704, fol. 14r (c.1464–1475). For Rhodes and the Knights of St John, see Anthony Luttrell and Gregory O’Malley, The Countryside of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306–1423: Original Texts and English Summaries (London, Routledge, 2019), esp. 20. 11. Arne Effenberger, ‘Entstehungszeit und Auftraggeber’, in Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber insularum archipelagi. Universitätsund Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, Ms. G 13. Faksimile, ed. Irmgard Siebert andMax Plassmann (Wiesbaden, Reichert, 2005), 67. 12. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W. 309, fol. 31r. (c.1450–1475). 13. Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urbs. Lat. 459, fol. 9v (c.1465). 14. For further research regarding Buondelmonti’s Island book, see Claudia Barsanti, ‘L’isola di Rodi nel “Liber insularum Archipelagi” di Cristoforo Buondelmonti’, Nea Rhome 5 (2008): 357–80; Benedetta Bessi, ‘Cristoforo Buondelmonti: Greek antiquities in Florentine humanism’, The Historical Review / La Revue Historique 9 (2012): 63–76; and della Dora, ‘Mapping a holy quasiisland’ (note 8).