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Definition of Portolan
1. Noun. (nautical) A chart of European navigable waters based on descriptions of coasts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portolan
1. a Middle Ages navigation manual [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portolan
Literary usage of Portolan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Authors Club: Manual by Authors Club (New York, N.Y.), Authors club, New York (1882)
"... Atlas of portolan Charts (1911); portolan Charts: their Origin and ...
Facsimiles of portolan Charts (1916); Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, ..."
2. Maps Reproduced as Glass Transparencies: Selected to Represent the by Edward Luther Stevenson (1913)
"It exhibits certain features of the portolan or sailor's charts, being crossed
by numerous ... portolan charts are the first modem scientific maps. ..."
3. Genoese World Map, 1457 by Theobald Fischer (1912)
"The map presents some of the features which are especially pronounced in the
portolan charts.1 Lines have been drawn blocking out the map in unequal ..."
4. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Charles Raymond Beazley (1899)
"... me fecit ;" (ß) a portolan atlas in six sheets, of AD 1426, thought by some
to resemble the work of Andrea Bianco in river-markings, legends, etc. ..."
5. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1913)
"NY, Scribner. (7 p. bibl.) 8°, $3. portolan CHARTS. portolan charts of the XV.
XVI and XVII centuries; collected by the late Dr. ..."
6. Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography by William Henry Babcock (1922)
"Thus the portolan atlas known as Egerton MS. 2803, contains two maps21 (one ...
Iceland, Shetland, » EL Stevenson: Atlas of portolan Charts: Facsimile of ..."
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