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’.
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)
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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)
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A New Map of the Franco-Brazilian Border Dispute (1900)
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 67, Number: 2 (03 Jul 2015)
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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)
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Italian Mapmakers in the Spanish Civil War (1937–1939)
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 64, Number: 1 (01 Jan 2012)
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The Date of the Gough Map
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 62, Number: 1 (04 Dec 2009)
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The Map of Macrobius before 1100
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 59, Number: 2 (01 Jul 2007)
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Nikolaos Sophianos’s Totius Graeciae Descriptio
Originally published in Imago Mundi, Volume: 58, Number: 2 (01 Jul 2006)
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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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