Format Map
Dates 1320
Location Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Language Italian
Subjects Black Sea
Coasts
Harbors
Mediterranean Sea
Nautical Charts
Title
[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript chart of the Mediterranean and Black seas on vellum].
Description
Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa.
Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea.
Oldest original cartographic artifact in the Library of Congress.
Title from printed label on box in which the map is housed.
Pen-and-ink (red/green/brown).
Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite.
Sheet cut into the shape of an irregular rectangle.
Imperfect: Vertically fold-lined at center, cracked, annotated in pencil on verso.
Includes bar scale with unidentified divisions.
The green rhumb lines on the recto are also visible on the verso.
LC Nautical charts on vellum 3
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Purchase; Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich; 1914.
1 ms. map : vellum ; 43 x 59 cm.
Created Published
[13--?]
Subject Headings
-  Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea
-  Nautical charts--Black Sea
-  Coasts--Mediterranean Sea
-  Coasts--Black Sea
-  Harbors--Mediterranean Sea
-  Harbors--Black Sea
-  Mediterranean Sea
-  Black Sea
-  Mediterranean Sea.
-  Black Sea.
Notes
-  Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa.
-  Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea.
-  Oldest original cartographic artifact in the Library of Congress.
-  Title from printed label on box in which the map is housed.
-  Pen-and-ink (red/green/brown).
-  Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite.
-  Sheet cut into the shape of an irregular rectangle.
-  Imperfect: Vertically fold-lined at center, cracked, annotated in pencil on verso.
-  Includes bar scale with unidentified divisions.
-  The green rhumb lines on the recto are also visible on the verso.
-  LC Nautical charts on vellum 3
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
-  Purchase; Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich; 1914.
Medium
1 ms. map : vellum ; 43 x 59 cm.
Call Number
G5672.M4P5 13-- .P6
Repository
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id
g5672m ct000821 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5672m.ct000821
Library of Congress Catalog Number
2003630429
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