mediumaevum: The Fra Mauro map, a medieval European map, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk F
mediumaevum:The Fra Mauro map, a medieval European map, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular world map drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter.The Fra Mauro map is unusual, but typical of Fra Mauro’s portolan charts, in that its orientation is with the south at the top, one of the usual conventions of Muslim maps, in contrast with the Ptolemy map which has the north at the top.2,255 × 2,245 -- source link
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