The oldest original cartographic artifact in the Library of Congress: a portolan nautical chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Second quarter of the 14th century.
Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan comes from the Italian portolano, meaning "related to ports or harbors", and which since at least the 17th century designates "a collection of sailing directions".[1]
^Campbell, Tony. "'Portolan charts from the late thirteenth century to 1500' (Additions, Corrections, Updates)". Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
Portolancharts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...
school. The Carta Pisana portolanchart, made at the end of the 13th century (1275–1300), is the oldest surviving nautical chart (that is, not simply a...
multiple lines in a web-like grid drawn on portolancharts (and other early maps). These nautical charts were used in the medieval age and age of exploration...
copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolanchart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather than...
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portolan chart Flag over Varna on Guillem Soler's Portolanchart (c.1385) Replica of Soler's portolanchart Flag of Bulgaria on Battista Beccario's 1426 map...
eight half-winds and red for the sixteen quarter-winds. The average portolanchart had sixteen such roses (or confluence of lines), spaced out equally...
notable 14th-century portolancharts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced...
Genoese cartographer and geographer. A pioneer of the field of the portolanchart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth...
rectangular island in the 1424 portolanchart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical charts of the 15th century. After 1492...
accurately-drawn portolancharts, starting with the 1367 chart of Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano and carried on in the 1375 Catalan Atlas, the 1413 chart of the...
Aragon, to make a set of nautical charts which would go beyond the normal geographic range of contemporary portolancharts to cover the East and the West...
converted to Christianity around this time. He is mostly known for his 1413 portolanchart which shows the N.E Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black...
15th-century Venetian cartographer. He is the author of a famous 1424 portolanchart, the first known to depict the phantom islands of the purported Antillia...
traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolancharts and maps associated with Ptolemy's Geography are sometimes considered...
resulted in the defining and mapping the borders between the two states. Portolancharts, which were used since the 13th century developed the technique of...
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of the volume contains a large collection of nautical charts, faithful copies of portolancharts composed earlier in the 15th century. The second half...
of the oldest signed Portolanchart (1311) Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolancharts of the Mediterranean...
flag as shown on some portolancharts The Byzantine imperial ensign of the 14th century according to Pietro Vesconte's portolanchart. The flag of Salonica...
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of the portolanchart, and it is unlikely this will ever be resolved. Few charts have survived to the modern day. The Carta Pisana portolanchart, made...
according to the portolan-chart model ). The construction of the rhumb line system in the Cantino planisphere uses two circles (some charts use only one,...
Beccario, responsible for a 1403 portolan map. Battista Beccario is the author of two notable portolancharts: 1426 portolanchart, signed and dated, "Baptista...
history of cartography as the author of an early 14th-century nautical portolanchart, depicting, with much skill, most of the world as then known to his...
not provided]. Manuscript portolan atlas of the world; Newberry Library Ayer MS map 13. sp. anon. (c. 1560). [Portolanchart of the Caribbean and Americas]...
incomparabilis". Two copies of maps by Fra Mauro are known to survive. One is a portolanchart in the Vatican Library, (Codice Borgiano V) published by Roberto Almagià...
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