Šima Krtalić is awarded the biannual Imago Mundi Prize 2023

Šima Krtalić receives the biannual prize of the academic journal Imago Mundi for the best paper in the history of cartography.

The tenth biennial Imago Mundi prize is awarded in 2023 to distinguish the Imago Mundi article considered to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline. The distinguished article is entitled Anchoring the Image of the Sea: Copying Coastlines on Manuscript Nautical Charts from the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, and was published in Imago Mundi 74:1 (2022): 1-30.

The selection committee for the 10th Imago Mundi Prize 2023, chaired by Sarah Tyacke and comprising Tom Harper and Matthew Edney, felt that the paper "expands our understanding of chart production in the late medieval and early modern period, hitherto little understood with regard to the techniques used to produce multiple copies". The approach was considered innovative, given that the literature has focused on geographical content. The committee also pointed out that it had been impressed by the size of the corpus of material studied, regarding the work as exemplary in its use of detailed empirical evidence to reconstruct basic cartographic practices that were hitherto little known.