Portolano for the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea ("Marston Portolano").[between 1400 and 1450]itaManuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialectIn Italian (Venetian dialect).Script: Written by one scribe in black ink except for five lines in red; of these lines 145 and 171 are no entries, but rubrics introducing the sections dealing with the Sea of Azov and the islands of the Aegean Sea respectively. The handwriting is a small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Cancelleresca influence; the latter is most apparent in the shape of the letter g and in the horizontal approach strokes at the top of the ascenders.The majuscules are heightened in red.Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.