Commissioning and Use of Charts Made in Majorca c.1400: New Evidence from a Tuscan Merchant’s Archive
Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi|Emmanuelle Vagnon
The Datini Archive in Prato, Italy, a remarkable collection of late fourteenth–early fifteenth century merchant’s business correspondence, includes number orders for charts from Majorca, one the major chart-making centres Mediterranean Middle Ages. letters give information on prices, length time it took to make chart, and its destination. archive also contains unpublished how were packed transported. From these sources we conclude that appear have served not only prepare trips, but embody memory trips.
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