Author | Autor Pietro Vesconte Date | Data 1311 Country I País Italy Archive | Arquivo Archivio di Stato di Firenze Call number |Número Catálogo CN 01 Dimensions | Dimensões 630 x 480 mm Entry at the Medea DB | Entrada Base Dados Medea The 1311 chart of Pietro Vesconte is the earliest extant example of a signed, dated nautical chart. It is drawn on a sheet of parchment with the neck oriented towards the east. While the 1311 chart does not dazzle with the opulence of some late

Author | Autor Anonymous Date | Data c. 1270 Country | País Italy Archive | Arquivo Bibliothèque nationale de France Call number | Número Catálogo GE B-1118 (RES) Dimensions | Dimensões 1030 X 480 mm Medea Database Entry | Entrada Base de Dados Medea An old parchment is kept at the French National Library containing the earliest known nautical chart to have survived to the present day, the Carte Pisane (Pisan Chart). It represents the Mediterranean Sea and the western half of

Author | Autor Vesconte Maggiolo Date | Data 1504 Country | País Italy Archive | Arquivo Biblioteca Federiciana, Fano Dimensions | Dimensões 1390 X 920 cm Medea-Chart database | Entrada Base de Dados Medea During the first two centuries of the modern era the manufacture of portolan charts in Genoa was a private enterprise (as in the other main ports of the Mediterranean), but under a state-controlled monopoly. The result was that for a period of 130 years, the official charge