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(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa).
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(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa).

Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Title devised by cataloguer. Contains 4 compass roses in a circle centered in Italy to the north of Rome and half of a fifth on the trimmed center left edge. Pen-and ink in brown, red, and green, with possible traces of gilding. The chart appears to have been cropped at the left and possibly the right. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 13.

Place
the Mediterranean Sea
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
13,043 × 9,680 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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"(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa).". Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Portolan_chart_of_the_Mediterranean,_the_Black_Sea,_and_the_coasts_of_Europe_and_northwest_Africa)._LOC_2012586589.jpg

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