Oculi Mundi (the Eyes of the World)

World Map, Rudimentum Novitiorum, 1475. Oculi Mundi

Oculi Mundi is a new digital resource making available high-res images of many of the Sunderland Collection’s 130 world and celestial maps, atlases, globes and books of knowledge have been digitised. The collection was begun over 30 years ago by the British businessman Neil Sunderland whose fascination with maps began at an early age. The collection includes one of the earliest uses of copper plate, in atlases and in print, produced by Francesco Berlinghieri in 1482, and a heart-shaped map of the world from 1566 by the Italian artist Giovanni Cimerlino.