Like most of these maps, it has the East with the terrestrial paradise at the top, and Jerusalem is represented as the centre.
PEUTINGER TABLE, WESTERN PART .-- This is the only Roman map extant; it gives lines of roads from the eastern shores of Britain to the Adriatic Sea.

It is really a kind of bird's-eye view taken from the African coast.

The Mediterranean runs as a thin strip through the lower part of the map.

The lower section joins on to the upper.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO IBN HAUKAL (from Lelewel, _Geographie du mon age_) .-- This map, like most of the Arabian maps, has the south at the top.

It is practically only a diagram, and is thus similar to the Hereford Map in general form .-- Misr=Egypt, Fars=Persia, Andalus=Spain.
COAST-LINE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN (from the _Portulano_ of Dulcert, 1339, given in Nordenskiold's _Facsimile Atlas_) .-- To illustrate the accuracy with which mariners' charts gave the coast-lines as contrasted with the merely symbolical representation of other mediaeval maps.
FRA MAURO MAP, 1457 (from Lelewel, _loc.