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Angelino Dulcert, "Dulcert Chart," Add. MS. 25691, c.1339, London, British Library. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/portolan-chart-attributed-to-angelino-dulcert
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This essay introduces to a wider audience a manuscript filled with drawings of the Medterranean world that were produced by the papal scribe Opicinus de Canastris between 1337 and 1341 (Vat. lat. 6435). While early literature on Opicinus often foregrounded his eccentricity either to devalue his drawings on aesthetic grounds or to use the drawings a...
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