The best map in the world when it was completed in 1375. The full-size version is linked, with remarkable detail.

It was produced by the Majorcan cartographic school and is attributed to Abraham Cresques, a Jewish book illuminator who was self-described as a master of the maps of the world as well as compasses. – Wikipedia

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