Map [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript chart of the Mediterranean and Black seas on vellum].

Title

• [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript chart of the Mediterranean and Black seas on vellum].

Created / Published

• [between 1320 and 1350]

Headings

• -  Coasts--Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Coasts--Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Harbors--Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Harbors--Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Mediterranean Sea
• -  Black Sea

Genre

• Manuscript maps
• Portolan charts
• Early maps

Notes

• -  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.
• -  LC Nautical charts on vellum 3
• -  Purchase; Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich; 1914.

Medium

• 1 ms. map : vellum ; 43 x 59 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G5672.M4P5 13-- .P6

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5672m.ct000821

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2003630429

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2003630429

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