Jehuda Cresques
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Jehudà Cresques, also known as Jafudà Cresques, Jaume Riba, and Cresques lo Juheu, was a converso cartographer from Majorca in the early 15th century.
An allegorical Statue of Jehuda Cresques at Palma's "Plaça del Temple"
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
Jehuda Cresques
…in the Majorcan-Catalan speaking part of Crown of Aragon, in present-day Spain. Together he and his father were the probable authors of the famous Catalan Atlas of 1375. Cresques' work was highly sought after. In 1390 John I of Aragon paid 60 livres and 8 sous for one of his maps. After the Aragonese persecutions…
Montage of 8 pages (the third to sixth leaves) of the original 1375 Catalan Atlas
Depiction of Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire, holding a gold object
Depiction of the king of Organa, "Rey de Organa".
Depiction of the ruler of the Ilkhanate and his realm.