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The most important manuscript map surviving from the early Age of Discovery, the Cantino World Map is named for Alberto Cantino, an Italian diplomatic agent in Lisbon who obtained it in 1502 for the D

Date
1502
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,528 × 1,656 pixels

Public domainsafest

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; permission field: The original was a closely guarded secret, not freely available to the public; as such, it was an unpublished work. This.

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"The most important manuscript map surviving from the early Age of Discovery, the Cantino World Map is named for Alberto Cantino, an Italian diplomatic agent in Lisbon who obtained it in 1502 for the D" (1502). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CantinoPlanisphere.png

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