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Manuscript portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas

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Title Manuscript portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas

Creator Roselli, Petrus, fl. 1446-1468

Date Created 1456

Place Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea

Language Latin

Subjects Manuscript maps, Nautical charts

Description Pen-and-ink and paint (red, green, blue, yellow).
Described and reproduced in Winter, Heinrich. "Petrus Roselli" in Imago Mundi 9 (1962) p. 4-5; Cartographic treasures of the Newberry Library (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2001) no. 45, p. 54-55; Buisseret, David. From sea charts to satellite images (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990) p. 20-21. See also Campbell, Tony. "Portolan charts from the late thirteenth century to 1500" in The History of Cartography / ed. by Harley and Woodward (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) v. 1, p. 454-455; cf. Mesenburg, Peter. Kartographie im Mittelalter: eine analytische Betrachtung zum Informationsgehalt der Portulankarte des Petrus Roselli aus dem Jahre 1449 (Karlsruhe: Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, 1989).

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col., vellum ; on sheet 368 x 699 mm

Format Early works

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS map 3

BibID 311010

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQGDDHH

Original File Name 993110108805867_ayer_ms_map_003

Unique identifier NL11IJT0

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