File:Mediterranean chart fourteenth century.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].
Date 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
Source Library of Congress[1]
Author anonymous, probably Genoan
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