Portolanos.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Medieval marine charts, used before compasses, and for Medieval navigation manuals, illustrated with charts and showing the location of ports and other navigational information.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas and the Atlantic Ocean from Mauretania to Frisia, including the Canaries, etc., and the British Isles, drawn in 1560 by Georgio Sideri for a member of the Venetian Bragadin family.
Item
Identifier: MS.20995
Scope and Contents
The chart is oriented to the west and has Georgio Sideri's inscription ('Georgius Sideri dictus Calapoda Cretensis composuit nel anno 1560') and the Bragadin coat-of-arms at the neck.
The principal ports are named in red, others in brown. The lines joining the compass-roses are alternately brown and red; black lines through the roses form a rectangular grid. Latitudes are marked on the left-hand side. Mountains are depicted, and some cities are represented by castles. European monarchies...
Dates:
1560.