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Portolan Chart by Jacopo Vesconte Maggiolo Facsimile Edition

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The Portolan Chart by Jacopo Vesconte Maggiolo maps the European and North African coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Presumably made in Genoa, the chart is signed by Maggiolo and dated 1602. It may have been made much earlier, though, because the date is written over an erasure. Genoa's crescent-shaped harbor is clearly represented in the map's bird's-eye view of the city. The chart's embellishment is charming, including images of kings, a row of colorful tents across Africa, and ships with billowing sails in the Atlantic.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Portolan Chart by Jacopo Vesconte Maggiolo": Portolano Iacopo Visconte Maggiolo Carta Portolanica facsimile edition, published by De Agostini/UTET, 2010

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Map description compiled by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.
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Portolano Iacopo Visconte Maggiolo Carta Portolanica

Rome/Turin: De Agostini/UTET, 2010

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  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Portolan Chart by Jacopo Vesconte Maggiolo: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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