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Ports de l'Atlantique
Ports de l'Atlantique
00:00:44:17
Iles
Iles
00:01:33:13
Iles imaginaires
Iles imaginaires
00:03:00:17
Générique de fin
Générique de fin
00:03:34:06

Nautical Atlas of the North-East Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea by Grazioso Benincasa, 1467

Reference

6888

Duration

00:04:07

Production year

2019

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16/9
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Sound

Director(s)

Franck GUILLEMAIN

Summary

The author of this atlas was a former ship captain and produced a large number of atlases and maps in Venice and Rome in the second half of the 15th century. These maps show the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, and also the coasts and islands of the Atlantic Ocean from England to the shores of Africa which the Portuguese had recently explored.

A map kept at the French national library BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Maps and Plans Department, shelf mark number GE DD-1988 (RES)
View this document in the digital Gallica library:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b5901110p?rk=42918;4

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