Majorcan cartographic school
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Majorcan cartographic school is the term coined by historians to refer to the collection of predominantly Jewish cartographers, cosmographers and navigational instrument-makers and some Christian asso
A part of the Catalan Atlas that was created by Majorca's cartographer Abraham Cresques in 1375
Marco Polo's caravan from the Catalan Atlas
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
Majorcan cartographic school
…bereft of illustrations. The Majorcan style, its beginnings already decipherable in the 1339 chart of Angelino Dulcert, and finding its epitome in the Catalan Atlas of 1375, attributed to Majorcan cartographer Abraham Cresques, contained a lot more inland detail and was replete with rich colorful illustrations…
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.