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The Catalan Atlas of 1375 joined nautical charts to cosmology, rulers, caravans and travel lore across six richly illuminated parchment leaves.

Where coastlines meet imagination

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Usually attributed to the Majorcan Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques and his workshop, the atlas moves from calendar and cosmology into a mapped world. Accurate Mediterranean coastlines share parchment with Mansa Musa, Silk Road caravans and creatures drawn from travellers' reports. It borrows the coastal precision of portolan charts while functioning as an illuminated courtly portrait of what lay beyond sight.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

1375 tarihli Katalan Atlası, deniz haritalarını kozmoloji, hükümdarlar, kervanlar ve seyahat anlatılarıyla altı zengin bezemeli parşömen yaprakta birleştirdi.
Kıyı çizgisinin hayalle buluştuğu yer

Genellikle Mayorkalı Yahudi haritacı Abraham Cresques ve atölyesine atfedilen atlas, takvim ve kozmolojiden haritalanmış dünyaya geçer. Akdeniz'in dikkatli kıyı çizgileri; Mansa Musa, İpek Yolu kervanları ve gezgin anlatılarından doğan yaratıklarla aynı parşömeni paylaşır. Eser, portolan haritalarının kıyı hassasiyetini ödünç alırken görüş ufkunun ötesini betimleyen bezemeli bir saray atlası olarak işlev görür.

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