[ISHMap-List] Barcelona buys fragment of portolan chart

[Luis Robles]

Here you are a link to the news in Spanish:
http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1661707

Brief summary for non-Spanish speakers: The city of Barcelona has acquired
a fragment (31.2 x 20.0 cm) of a portolan chart attributed by Ramón Pujades
to Guillem Soler and tentatively dated ca. 1375. Seller: Daniel Crouch Rare
Books of London. Price: 60,000 € (initial ask was 120,000 €). The parchment
has been preserved thanks to being used to bind a book in the 16th century.

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Luis A. Robles Macías

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