Maghreb Chart
Commentary
Maghreb Chart
Accession number:
SP 2, 25
Collection:
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
The Maghreb Chart in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, is the earliest preserved portolan chart from the Islamic world. It was drawn up in North Africa in the first half of the fourteenth century and has many features in common with its contemporary European counterparts. Its distinctive arrangement of rhumb lines appears to have been copied from a chart made in 1325 by Angelino de Dalorto in Palma de Mallorca.
Commentary. Philipp Nothaft (May-June 2019)