Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the northwestern African coast.

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Title: Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the northwestern African coast.
Creator: Abenzara, Judah.
Published / Created: [1505]
Copyright Date: [1505]
Publication Place: [Tsefat, Israel] :
Description: Contains six compass roses.
Decoration: city views with banners; five side-view portraits.
Imperfect: chipped along left, bottom and top edge, with some loss of map.
Includes four bar scales.
Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue and green.
Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 map : manuscript, color, vellum ; 68 x 106 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale not determined.
Coordinates: a
Language: Latin

Format: cartographic
Genre: Manuscript maps.
Portolan charts.
Resource Type: Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic): Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800.
North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Topic): Nautical charts--Black Sea--Early works to 1800.
Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea--Early works to 1800.
Nautical charts--North Atlantic Ocean--Early works to 1800.

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