Map · Catalan
Catalan Estense world map (Catalan planisphere), Modena, Biblioteca Estense C.G.A.1
Mappamondo catalano estense
Anonymous Catalan (Majorcan) cartographer
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
Compilation: Catalan portolan tradition with Asian interior from Polo-era and 15th-century Latin sources; no observation.
Research notes
- Anonymous; content descends from the Catalan Atlas tradition and Catalan portolans. Estense Digital Library record could not be opened from this environment.
- Sampled through the Museo Galileo 'Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro' online exhibition (2021-2025), which serves zoomify tile pyramids of comparison maps by concession of the holding libraries (site states further reproduction forbidden). Tile base: mostre.museogalileo.it/images/framauro/05_mapp…; tiles at TileGroupN/level-col-row.jpg.
Why it matters
Mid-15th-century Catalan successor of the Catalan Atlas showing how the Asian interior (Caspian, steppe cities, seated Tartar/Mongol rulers) was redrawn after the Timurid period; a bridge between the 1375 atlas and the printed Ptolemies.
Places named
Whole known world, north at top; Central Asia; Caspian; Cathay and the Great Khan's realm; India; Africa
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- Catalan Atlas M002, 1375same tradition (stated)Catalan Atlas (1375) tradition