Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas
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Barcode:
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4687820500612
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Title:
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Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas
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Original Title:
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Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas
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Contributor:
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Anonymous
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Category:
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Sea Charts
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Type:
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Manuscripts
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Language:
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English
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Create Year:
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1550?
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Format:
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JPEG2000, 3975 × 8615, 6.9MB
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Scale:
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ca. 1:10,000,000
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Physical Map Dimension (cm):
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50 × 19
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Note:
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Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea. Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 11 compass roses in a circle centered on Sicily, 2 additional roses in Iberia, and rhumb lines connecting all roses and some central points without roses. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (brown) and dark watercolors. Includes 4 scale bars (unidentified) and a large compass rose at top (in neck of sheet) containing a drawing of the Madonna and Child.
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Note:
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This is an early old map depicted the world
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Subject:
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Nautical charts
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Subject:
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Seaports
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Subject:
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Maps, Manuscript
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Geographic Area:
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Mediterranean Sea
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Pub Title:
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Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
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Pub Author:
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Anonymous
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Pub Year:
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1550?
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Provenance:
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Library of Congress Map Collections
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