LJS 28 is a portolan atlas - that is, maps concerned with coastlines and ports. Made in Venice between 1535 and 1538, it includes maps of Britain, the Mediterranean, the Aegean sea, Adriatic Sea, and others, and a map of the world (part 2 of 2)
I've been bewitched body and soul by @uncontrol-freak's corvosider au in which Corvo is a grizzled sea captain, so I made a short fan comic for ch 2. If you want to know where the seas will take them, check out their fic, Abyssal!
Higher quality version linked here because tumblr always chews up my comics
do you have any favorite illustrations of map sea creatures? like the guys they would draw on old maps cause (imo) plain old water was just too boring? I’d love to see them if you do!!
What a great question! Weirdly, the one map everyone thinks of when thinking of sea creatures on maps?
These were very much NOT space-filling. This map illustrated Olaus Magnus' history and geography of Scandinavia, and every single thing on it (including the sea monsters) is directly taken from his book. So it's kind of like making a map of Middle Earth and putting in the locations of all the trolls and dragons and stuff! Everything here is intentional!
But in terms of monsters placed purely as decorative elements because the mapmakers felt like it, I think it's hard not to love this screaming head from Cosmographia Universalis et Exactissima by Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1569).