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English: The first two sheets of the eight-sheet Tammar Luxoro Atlas, a set of anonymous Italian portolan charts, believed to have been made by the Venetian cartographer Francesco de Cesanis, sometime before 1421, and held by the Biblioteca Civica Berio in Genoa, Italy.
  • Sheet 1 (oriented with South on top) depicts north Atlantic (southern England, France, northern Spain)
  • Sheet 2 (oriented with East on top) depicts southern Spain, the Balearic islands and northwest Africa.
Date Early 15th C. (pre-1421)
Source http://www.e-corpus.org/fre/ref/10651/m.r.Cf.Arm.2/
Author Anonymous (attrib. Francesco de Cesanis)

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