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Mapa mondi (Catalan Atlas of 1375), Majorcan cartographic school, and 14th century Asia

SYSNO ASEP	0495837
Document Type	C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.)
R&D Document Type	Conference Paper
Title	Mapa mondi (Catalan Atlas of 1375), Majorcan cartographic school, and 14th century Asia
Author(s)	Liščák, Vladimír (OU-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Source Title	Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, 1. - Göttingen : International Cartographic Association, 2018
Number of pages	8 s.
Publication form	Online - E
Action	28th International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association
Event date	02.07.2017 - 08.07.2017
VEvent location	Washington, DC
Country	US - United States
Event type	WRD
Language	eng - English
Country	DE - Germany
Keywords	Mappæ mundi ; Majorcan cartographic school ; Catalan Atlas 1375 ; Medieval Asia ; Medieval China
Subject RIV	DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography
OECD category	History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Institutional support	OU-W - RVO:68378009
DOI	10.5194/ica-proc-1-69-2018
Annotation	This paper deals with the Mapa mondi drawn and written in about 1375. It is my starting study about this important map of the medieval period in the Catalan language and the finest work to come from the Majorcan cartographic school of the fourteenth century. The aim of this paper is to give a general overview of the publication with some de-tails on descriptions of the portion of Asia, and in more details as regards China. This map is known also as the Catalan Atlas, because it is composed of several tables sketching out the world known at that time, from the Atlantic Coast of Europe to the Pacific Coast of East Asia. The main sources for the eastern parts of the world were travelogues of Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Odoric of Pordenone. The presumable author of the Catalan Atlas, Cresques Abra-ham (1325–1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma, was “master of mappæ mundi and compasses” to Peter IV (III), the King of Aragon. He worked on the atlas with his son Jehudà, who after the Aragonese persecutions of 1391, converted to Christianity. The atlas contained the latest information on Africa, Asia, and China and was considered to be the most complete picture of geographical knowledge as it stood in the later Middle Ages. The translations of original texts and interpretations, based on facsimiles of original source and on secondary sources until 2016, will be a part of this paper.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2019
Electronic address	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325188426_Mapa_mondi_Catalan_Atlas_of_1375_Majorcan_cartographic_school_and_14th_century_Asia

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