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Mediterranean chart fourteenth century

Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic artifact in the. Title from printed label on box in which the map is housed. Pen-and-ink (red/green/brown). Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite. Sheet cut into the shape of an irregular rectangle. Imperfect: Vertically fold-lined at center, cracked, annotated in pencil on verso. Includes bar scale with unidentified divisions. The green rhumb lines on the recto are also visible on the verso. Scale ca. 1:5,500,000.

Date
1320–1350
Mapmaker / publisher
anonymous, probably Genoan
Place
the Mediterranean Sea
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
5,486 × 4,009 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died long enough ago that the copyright has expired.

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"Mediterranean chart fourteenth century" (1320–1350). anonymous, probably Genoan. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century.jpg

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