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Subject: Viladestes map of 1413
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>

An academic needs a good picture of the west coast of Greece from a
specific portolan (details below). Does anyone know of any images, digital
or paper, of this particular portolan?

Thanks

Brendan Whyte


>I am trying to find a good resolution image of the portolan map of the
>Mediterranean by Viladestes (1413). I am interested in the coastline on
>the western side of Greece and Albania on this map.
>
>The following web page shows a thumbnail sized image of the map but the
>text is in French:
>
>http://expositions.bnf.fr/ciel/catalan/portulan/page4.htm
>
>Any help in locating a good image showing the west side of Greece would
>be most useful.
>

Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
ERC Library
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
AUSTRALIA
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