Egerton 2803 maps
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title:
Egerton 2803 maps
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The Egerton 2803 maps are an atlas of twenty Genoese portolan charts dated to around 1508 or 1510 and attributed to Visconte Maggiolo. The manuscript maps depict various regions of the Old and New Worlds, blending both Spanish and Portuguese cartographic knowledge. They have been noted as the earliest non-Amerindian maps of Middle America, and, jointly, as one of the oldest portolan atlases of the Americas. The maps were acquired for the Egerton Collection in 1895, published in facsimile form in
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Italian world atlas, ca 1508 or ca 1510
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egerton_2803_maps
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2024-03-09T09:40:34Z
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