File:Mediterranean chart fourteenth century2.jpg
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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 Library of Congress. 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]. |
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between circa 1320 and circa 1350 date QS:P,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1320-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Source | Library of Congress[1] | |||||
Author | anonymous, probably Genoan | |||||
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