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(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coast of Spain and Portugal)
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(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coast of Spain and Portugal)

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Fragmentary signature on upper right portion leading into neck reads "Io Placid.". Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 10 small and 4 large compass roses centered on Sicily. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 14. Pen-and-ink and goauche, with traces of gilding. Includes 2 scale bars (unidentified units), fragment of an illustration on the neck, and many illustrations throughout.

Date
1575
Mapmaker / publisher
Oliva, Placido
Place
the Mediterranean Sea
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
12,945 × 9,596 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coast of Spain and Portugal)" (1575). Oliva, Placido. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Portolan_chart_of_the_Mediterranean_and_Black_Seas_with_the_west_coast_of_Spain_and_Portugal)_LOC_2012586591.jpg

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