File:Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas. LOC 2010588182.tif

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English: 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. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 12. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 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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[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas].
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G5672.M4P5 1550 .P6
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Mediterranean Sea
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American Memory · Catalog · Geography And Map Division · Discovery And Exploration
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Mediterranean Sea · Early Works To 1800 · Seaports · Nautical Charts · Maps, Manuscript

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