Henricus Martellus's World Map
c. 1489-1491 (most accounts fix it to about 1491, partly because one legend quotes a text published that year; estimates in the literature range from c. 1489 to c. 1492) - Hand-drawn and colored manuscript map, ink and pigment on a single large sheet. The exact ground material (paper or parchment) is not established in the sources consulted for this record.