Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...

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directions forming a web-like mesh. They were featured on portolan charts and other early nautical charts used in the medieval age and age of exploration in...

rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical charts of the 15th century. After 1492...

copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather than...

of Ireland..." Nautical charts identified an island called "Bracile" west of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean in a portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert circa...

school. The Carta Pisana portolan chart, made at the end of the 13th century (1275–1300), is the oldest surviving nautical chart (that is, not simply a...

surviving nautical chart (that is, not simply a map but a document showing accurate navigational directions). It is a portolan chart, showing a detailed...

eight half-winds and red for the sixteen quarter-winds. The average portolan chart had sixteen such roses (or confluence of lines), spaced out equally...

portolan charts of the Mediterranean, which were constructed based on magnetic courses and estimated distances between places, in the latitude chart,...

notable 14th-century portolan charts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced...

flag as shown on some portolan charts The Byzantine imperial ensign of the 14th century according to Pietro Vesconte's portolan chart. The flag of Salonica...

accurately-drawn portolan charts, starting with the 1367 chart of Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano and carried on in the 1375 Catalan Atlas, the 1413 chart of the...

Aragon, to make a set of nautical charts which would go beyond the normal geographic range of contemporary portolan charts to cover the East and the West...

Portolan of Angelo Freducci is a portolan chart by Angelo Freducci from 1554. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. After the Warsaw...

analysis that these charts used an equirectangular projection instead. In the 13th century, the earliest extant portolan charts of the Mediterranean...

chart Flag over Varna on Guillem Soler's Portolan chart (c.1385) Approximate replica of Soler's portolan chart Flag of Bulgaria on Battista Beccario's...

Portolan of Antonio Millo is a portolan chart by Antonio Millo from 1583. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. During the Warsaw...

of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311) Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean...

map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing radiate. Designed for navigation via dead reckoning, portolan charts use a windrose...

traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolan charts and maps associated with Ptolemy's Geography are sometimes considered...

developed breakthroughs in cartographic techniques, namely the "normal portolan chart", which was fine-tuned for navigational use and the plotting by compass...

portolan chart of Angelino de Dalorto, featuring a red background with a white animal in the center and black stripes. On a Jorge Aguiar's portolan chart...

A portolan chart (map) by Jacobo Russo (Giacomo Russo) of Messina (1533)...

15th-century Venetian cartographer. He is the author of a famous 1424 portolan chart, the first known to depict the phantom islands of the purported Antillia...

Catalan charts or Catalan portolans are portolan charts in the Catalan language. Portolan charts are a type of medieval and early modern map that focuses...

not provided]. Manuscript portolan atlas of the world; Newberry Library Ayer MS map 13. sp. anon. (c. 1560). [Portolan chart of the Caribbean and Americas]...

was probably Venetian. Virga is the author of two famous maps: 1409 portolan chart, 43 x 68 cm, covering the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Atlantic coast...

Byzantine Empire Byzantine Imperial Ensign (according to Pietro Vesconte's portolan chart.) Examples of Byzantine military banners probably borne by cavalry,...

Beccario, responsible for a 1403 portolan map. Battista Beccario is the author of two notable portolan charts: 1426 portolan chart, signed and dated, "Baptista...