Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...

Claude Portolan (born 16 December 1960) is a French former international rugby union player. A product of hometown club SA Auterive, Portolan was a prop...

navigational aid consisting in multiple lines in a web-like grid drawn on portolan charts (and other early maps). These nautical charts were used in the medieval...

portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert. It also appeared on the Catalan Atlas, in 1375. One of the earliest appearances was on the Rex Tholomeus portolan...

Portolan of Antonio Millo is a portolan chart by Antonio Millo from 1583. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. During the Warsaw...

Dalorto Replica of Dalorto's portolan chart Flag over Varna on Guillem Soler's Portolan chart (c.1385) Replica of Soler's portolan chart Flag of Bulgaria on...

Portolan of Angelo Freducci is a portolan chart by Angelo Freducci from 1554. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. After the Warsaw...

Catalan charts or Catalan portolans are portolan charts in the Catalan language. Portolan charts are a type of medieval and early modern map that focuses...

charts which would go beyond the normal geographic range of contemporary portolan charts to cover the East and the West, and everything that, from the Strait...

notable 14th-century portolan charts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced...

navigational studies. He compiled charts and notes into the most detailed portolan atlas in existence. There are two versions of the book. The first version...

were responsible for the invention (c. 1300) of the "normal portolan chart". The portolan was a realistic, detailed nautical chart, gridded by a rhumbline...

the principal winds on the compass rose found in mariners' compasses and portolan charts of the 14th and 15th centuries. The traditional names of the eight...

partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather...

converted to Christianity around this time. He is mostly known for his 1413 portolan chart which shows the N.E Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black...

traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolan charts and maps associated with Ptolemy's Geography are sometimes considered...

handbooks, hence the term portolan charts. The wealth of detail contained in portolano handbooks is reflected in the portolan charts, stunningly accurate...

The map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing radiate. Designed for navigation via dead reckoning, portolan charts use a...

expected of all Medieval mariners.[citation needed] In the earliest medieval portolan charts of the 14th century, compass roses were depicted as mere collections...

flag as shown on some portolan charts The Byzantine imperial ensign of the 14th century according to Pietro Vesconte's portolan chart. The flag of Salonica...

the Washington Map Society”, Portolan, No 49, Winter 2000-01, pp.18 Lourie, I., “The Atlases of A. J. Johnson”, Portolan, No 49, Winter 2000-01, pp.7-17...

influential in Islamic science as well, whose maps were quite similar to the Portolan charts and were partly influential on the Catalan map by Abraham Cresques...

its first explicit appearance as a large rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical...

resulted in the defining and mapping the borders between the two states. Portolan charts, which were used since the 13th century developed the technique...

Beccario, responsible for a 1403 portolan map. Battista Beccario is the author of two notable portolan charts: 1426 portolan chart, signed and dated, "Baptista...

Navigation Celestial Charts Portolan chart Rutter (nautical) Coastal Lighthouses History Piloting Pilot boat Maritime pilot By region: Inuit Micronesian...

was a Genoese cartographer and geographer. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth...

The Pizzigani brothers are principally known for the construction of a portolan chart, signed and dated 1367, currently held by the Biblioteca Palatina...

Navigation Celestial Charts Portolan chart Rutter (nautical) Coastal Lighthouses History Piloting Pilot boat Maritime pilot By region: Inuit Micronesian...

Navigation Celestial Charts Portolan chart Rutter (nautical) Coastal Lighthouses History Piloting Pilot boat Maritime pilot By region: Inuit Micronesian...