Portolan Map Possibilities

[Linda]

Also, one 15thC text I find interesting (and which may perhaps be relevant to your hypothesis about the Q13 illustrations) is the way that coastlines and rivers are integrated into the marginal space in  various editions of Dati's Sfera.

Below, pages from the Boston Public Library's MS f Med. 125 (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.):



Another version from Harvard's Houghton Library MS Typ 155:


Printed version of Dati's Sfera from Library of Congress, PQ4621.D17 S4 1475

Thanks! That last one has actual portolan chart type maps following that image. Interesting to compare them.

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Other intriguing tidbits in there too. One of them looks to me like the mountains of the moon and the text seems to indicate something about paradise and first humans??? It struck me because it draws parallel rivers to round lakes, and that is what i was saying about the crossed eyeball figures in the vms, i think it means parallel rivers that cross and share water flow...

Anyone know where a translation of the poem might be found?