File:Nautical chart of Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia.jpg

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English: Nautical chart of Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia.

Call Number: HM 1549
LUÍS TEIXEIRA, PORTOLAN CHART. Lisbon, ca. 1600

Inscribed on a scroll “Por Luis Te[ixe]ira em Lix[bo]a.” Sold in 1867 by Henry Stevens (1791-1867) to Henry Huth (1815-78), The Huth Library (1880), pt. 4, 1171. Sale of Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Sotheby’s, 11 July 1917, pt. VI, n. 5914 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.

The map shows shields or heraldic banners of a number of realms, including:

  • Scotland (azure a saltire gules)
  • England (argent a cross gules)
  • Ireland, not very legible (perhaps a repetition of the English shield?)
  • Portugal (Argent? five hurts within a bordure gules -- also on Morocco)
  • Spain (quarterly, 1st and 3rd a castle, 2nd and 4th paly of Or and gules)
  • France (azure a fleur-de-lys Or, rotated with respect to the others)
  • On Switzerland / Germany / Northern Italy, gules a cross argent and argent a cross gules
  • Venice shown very large, flying blue St. Mark's lion banner
  • On the western Balkans, gules a mullet of 6 pierced or and quarterly of sable(?) and gules
  • Greece shown flying gules, a chalice or
  • On Anatolia, crusader's St. George cross banner flying from tent.
  • In northern central Europe, large crowned shield with Or a saltire gules (Holy Roman Empire?)
  • On north coast of Black Sea, long banner gules a cross Or
  • Muslim states in north Africa shown mainly with white or yellow vertical crescents on triangular banners of red and blue (or horizontally divided between red and blue).
  • Tartaria shown as azure, a decrescent argent.
  • Next to the southernmost mapped area of the western coast of Africa is the Portuguese Order of Christ cross banner
Date circa 1600
date QS:P,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source berkeley.edu
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
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