AD 1466 · 15th century · Mediterranean

Portolan chart of the Mediterranean

Petrus Roselli’s chart preserves the dense coastal names and rhumb network of the Majorcan portolan tradition.

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Petrus Roselli portolan chart of the Mediterranean dated 1466 — James Ford Bell Library via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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Cartographer	Petrus Roselli

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Bibliography

Campbell, Tony. “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500.” In The History of Cartography, vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

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