Article ID: CBB089270825

Commissioning and Use of Charts Made in Majorca c.1400: New Evidence from a Tuscan Merchant’s Archive (2019)

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The Datini Archive in Prato, Italy, a remarkable collection of a late fourteenth–early fifteenth century merchant’s business correspondence, includes a number of orders for charts from Majorca, one of the major chart-making centres in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The letters give information on prices, the length of time it took to make a chart, and its destination. The archive also contains unpublished information on how the charts were packed and transported. From these sources we conclude that the charts appear to have served not only to prepare business trips, but also to embody the memory of these trips.

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Authors & Contributors
Nicolai, Roel
Gaspar, Joaquim Alves
Alberto Malvolti
Evangelos Livieratos
Leitão, Henrique
Kahlaoui, Tarek
Concepts
Cartography
Nautical charts
Maps; atlases
Portolan chart
Navigation
Earth sciences
Time Periods
Medieval
14th century
15th century
13th century
16th century
12th century
Places
Mediterranean region
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Spain
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