Crossword-Solution: PORTOLAN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The last alone is wanting in the Combitis Portolan.] [Footnote 169: Still earlier in 1508, Valentin Fernandez, a printer of Munich, issued the story in a MS., re-discovered in this century.

The old _Peripli_ were sailing directions, not drawn but written; and the only Arabic portolan known to exist was copied from an Italian example.

Africa it only gives us the shore-line as far as Sallé, with a series of names, beginning at Arzilla.[247] [Footnote 247: No Atlantic islands exist on the Tammar Luxoro portolan.] (4) Marino Sanudo the Elder, to his work, _Liber Secretorum fidelium Crucis_, written between 1306 and 1321, added an atlas of ten maps.

Its nomenclature here is very similar to, though somewhat less full than, that of the Catalan atlas (1375).[262] Besides these two works, Giroldis has left others of less importance, viz., (γ), a Portolan atlas of 1443, consisting of six maps; (δ), a Portolan atlas, also of six maps, dated 1446; (ε?), a Portolano, unsigned, in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana at Florence, which is perhaps his work.

The western Mediterranean, Adriatic and Ægaean, as well as the Black Sea and Caspian, are poorly drawn, and suggest an early and crude type of portolan.