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A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa
Map Created date: 1470This chart of Europe was drawn by Grazioso Benincasa at Ancona in 1470. It illustrates the detailed complexity of late p...
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An anonymous map of Italy
Map Created date: 15th centuryIn the 15th century several maps were drawn of the whole of Italy, by then the most map-conscious part of Europe. The ou...
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Chart of the Aegean from the Cornaro atlas
Map Created date: 15th centuryAn atlas made for the Cornaro family of Venice at the end of the 15th century contains 35 portolan charts by various Ven...
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Chart of the central Mediterranean by Giacomo Giro...
Map Created date: mid-15th centuryThis portion of a mid-15th-century chart by the Venetian Giacomo Giroldi shows the Adriatic with parts of Italy. South i...
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Map in the margin of Dati, The Sphere
Map Created date: 1470Manuscripts of The Sphere, a poem in Italian by Gregorio Dati (1362-1435) or his brother Leonardo, are decorated with ma...
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Map of Scotland by John Harding
Map Created date: mid-15th centuryJohn Harding's history of England down to the mid-15th century was written primarily to demonstrate the English king's r...
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Map of the Bay of Bengal from Ptolemy's Geography
Map Created date: 15th centuryThis map from the Harley manuscripts collection shows the Bay of Bengal from a manuscript of Ptolemy's Geography, has th...
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