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Medieval Trade and Travel: Trade

Library and internet resources about the medieval trade and travel from late antiquity to c. 1492

Overview

Mediterranean Trade


Account of a journey from Venice to Palestine, Mount Sinai and Egypt
Germany, c. 1467
British Library Ms. Egerton 1900, f. 4

Europe and Asia based on Ptolemy's map


British Library Ms. Burney 111,  ff. 105v-106

Northern European Trade


Detail of historiated initial 'F'(acta) of merchant and golden vessels.
British Library Arundel 66, f. 155v

Merchants and Commerce

Columbian Exchange and the beginnings of Early Modern Trade