The Imago Mundi Prize of $2,000 is awarded every two years for the article in the Journal judged ‘to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline’.
Entry Requirements and Eligibility:
Only full-length articles are eligible for the prize.
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The Imago Mundi Prize will be awarded to honour the Imago Mundi article judged to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline.
The judges will consider articles published in the previous two years’ issues. The winner will receive $1000 and will automatically qualify for a J.B. Harley Travel Award to the subsequent International Conference on the History of Cartography. The winner will also receive a certificate, which, if he or she is able to attend, will be presented at the conference.
Full length articles will be eligible for the Prize, but not shorter articles, since only full length articles are automatically subject to the (anonymous) external refereeing process before acceptance for publication. Directors of Imago Mundi Ltd (who take it in turns to serve on the panel of judges) are not eligible for consideration.
The Imago Mundi Prize was generously sponsored by Kenneth Nebenzahl, and, since 2021, by Jossy Nebenzahl.
Judging:
The prize is judged by three of the Imago Mundi CIO.
Past Winners
2022 Prize Winner
Anchoring the Image of the Sea: Copying Coastlines on Manuscript Nautical Charts from the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 71, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2019)
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Commissioning and Use of Charts Made in Majorca c.1400: New Evidence from a Tuscan Merchant’s Archive
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 71, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2019)
Read more2017 Prize Winner
Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 69, Number: 2 (03 Jul 2017)
Read more2015 Prize Winner
A New Map of the Franco-Brazilian Border Dispute (1900)
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 67, Number: 2 (03 Jul 2015)
Read more2013 Prize Winner
The Selden Map Rediscovered: A Chinese Map of East Asian Shipping Routes, c.1619
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 65, Number: 1 (01 Jan 2013)
Read more2011 Prize Winner
Italian Mapmakers in the Spanish Civil War (1937–1939)
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 64, Number: 1 (01 Jan 2012)
Read more2010 Prize Winner
The Date of the Gough Map
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 62, Number: 1 (04 Dec 2009)
Read more2007 Prize Winner
The Map of Macrobius before 1100
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 59, Number: 2 (01 Jul 2007)
Read more2006 Prize Winner
Nikolaos Sophianos’s Totius Graeciae Descriptio
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 58, Number: 2 (01 Jul 2006)
Read more2003 Prize Winner
Sacred Geography, Antiquarianism and Visual Erudition: Benito Arias Montano and the Maps in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 55, Number: 1 (01 Oct 2003)
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