This Agnese map is a part of a portolanoin the Royal Library at Dresden; and similar ones by him are said to be in the Royal Library at Munich, in the British Museum, and in the Bodleian, dated a few months apart.
It belonged to a manuscript portolano when Kohl copied it, in the possession of Santarem, which is described by Harrisse in his Cabots (p.
Kohl placed in the same Collection another map of this region from an undated portolano in the British Museum (no.
Kohl also includes a map by Joannes Oliva, copied from a manuscript portolano among the Egerton Manuscripts in the British Museum, which purports to have been made at Marseilles in 1613.
Almost unaltered copy of a Portolano from the 14th century.
The Mappemonde is a compromise between, or combination of, the portolano and the Mediaeval theoretical map, and is quite a landmark in the history of cartography.
A comparison of the contours of the Mediterranean, according to various portolanos, with a modern chart, shows that the normal portolanocontained no mistake due to the misdirection of the compass.
Professor Tammar Luxoro, of Genoa, in 1882, and usually called after him, is believed by Nordenskjoeld to be a "slightly altered copy of the normal portolano in its original form.
The "Carte Pisane" of the latest thirteenth or earliest fourteenth century is probably only a copy of an earlier work, though now itself our earliest example of the portolano type.
It is also from the Laurentian portolano of 1351 that we know how, at some anterior time, the greater group of the Azores had been found by Portuguese vessels under Genoese commanders.
The meridian distance between the Straits of Gibraltar and Beirut in Syria amounts upon them to about 3000 Portolano miles, equal in lat.
Most of the expansions of Portolano maps into maps of the world are circular in shape, and resemble the wheel maps of an earlier period.
The Portuguese portolano of about this date given in Kunstmann, pl.
Among the last of the school of geographers who supposed North America to be an archipelago, was Pierro Coppo, who published at Venice in 1528 what has become a very rare Portolano delli lochi maritimi ed isole der mar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portolano" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
