Abraham Cresques
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Cresques Abraham was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Mallorca, then part of the Crown of Aragon. In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credited with the authorship
A part of the Catalan Atlas by Cresques Abraham
The 8 page montage of the Catalan Atlas
"Venice chart" (It.IV,1912), Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
"Naples chart" (XII.D102), Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples
Catalan Atlas
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The Catalan Atlas is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s, that has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan la
Abraham Cresques
…Mallorca, then part of the Crown of Aragon. In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credited with the authorship of the celebrated Catalan Atlas of 1375. A Mallorcan Jew, Cresques was a master map-maker and builder of clocks, compasses, and other nautical instruments. He was a leading member of…
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