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0.62 x 0.92 m, in Latin, semigothic character, colors used, natural, green,
blue, white, red and black, well preserved in one sheet.
Includes: all of Central and Southern and part of Northern Europe;
West Asia; North Africa.
In the North: the southern part of Scandinavia; in the East: the Persian
Gulf and part of Persia; in the South: the Sahara and Libyan deserts; in
the West: the Atlantic.
Scale of about 1:5.5000.000; flat projection, in front of the scale indicator
is the following partly extinct notation: NOTA QUOD QUODLIBET
SPA-CIUM DENOTAT miliaria decem, maius spacium denotat miliaria
quinquaginta ET HEC MENSURA.... Per mare LICET NOT in omnibus
per terram propter vias tortuosas.
The wind rose has 32 wind rhumbs, with lines in black, green, red, 8
black ones for the cardinal winds, 8 green ones for the half winds, 16 red
ones for the quarter winds. These lines intersect in many places to form
more roses of 24 and 16 wind rhumbs.
Further details: the author’s signature, various ethnographic and
descriptive comments on Africa. We note that in Lithuania at one time
there were Amazones femine bellatrices. In proximity of Kherson (Crimea)
Hic sumersus fuit Sanctus Clemens. The major cities have their own coat
of arms; in Italy we note: Milan and Genoa (cross), Venice (lion), Florence
(fleur-de-lys), Rome (keys). In Africa almost all cities are labeled with the
crescent and some have the form of castles.
Florence State Archives, nautical charts etc., No. 2 (from the Diplomatic
Archive).
Among other things, the list goes on with a card by the Viscount (see
below) filed under no. 15 and described as follows:
15 - PIETRO VISCONTE
1321 - Atlas represented on the wind rose with 16 wind rhumbs.
Santarem claimed to possess a facsimile.
The nautical atlas filed under no. 17, which belonged to the Medicis, is
of greater interest and is presented as follows:
17 - ANONYMOUS
1351- Medici Atlas consisting of 8 hand drawn plates measuring 0.56 x
0.425 m, in Latin with Roman and Gothic characters.
The Map of Africa is described as follows:
“Plate IV includes the coasts of Barbiera of Cape Sorta as far as the
Strait of Gibraltar, the beaches of Spain and Portugal, those of West Africa