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The surname and part of the date are smudged. The earliest reading we have of this portion of the map is by a
Majorcan named Pasqual in 1789 who jotted the surname down as "Guullen". It has since been read as Diego de Senill ('the Old' - a hopeful reading in the direction of
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sometime before 1785, and subsequently came into the possession of his heirs, the
Majorcan Counts of Montenegro. The map suffered an accident in the winter of 1838/39, when the Count of Montenegro was in the process of showing it to his visitors,
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Vallseca names eight or nine islands of the Azores, which have been hard to read because of the ink accident. One 1841 reading (by the
Visconde de Santarem) identifies the names of the eight islands as
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163:(e.g. the homogenization of the scale between the Mediterranean and Atlantic). Gabriel de Vallseca's charts retain some signature Majorcan decorative motifs, such as the
71:. He is sometimes said to be the son of Haym ibn Risch (of the Cresques family), who, upon conversion, took the name Juan de Vallsecha. Alternatively, he had
301:. A carelessly-placed inkwell tipped onto the map, causing irreparable blots and marring the legibility of some of the labels on the western part of the map.
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Families de jueus conversos mallorquines ennoblides a Sicília: Els Tarongí i els
Vallseca. P de Muntaner, Revista Lluc, març-abril 2006, pàg. 21 i següents
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There is one reproduction of the map, made in 1892 for an exhibition on the 4th centenary of
Columbus in Spain, that is currently in the possession of the
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Vallseca's most famous map is the portolan of 1439, particularly for incorporating the very recent discoveries of the captains of the
Portuguese Prince
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Jordão de
Freitas (1937) "As ilhas do arquipélago dos Açores na história da expansão portuguesa", in A. Baião, H. Cidade and M. Múrias, editors,
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In 1910, the Count of
Montenegro put the 1439 map up for sale. It was bought by the Catalan Pere Bosc i Oliver, who proceeded to sell it to the
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Notice des découvertes faites au môyen-age dans l'Océan
Atlantique, antérieurement aux grandes explorations portugaises du quinzième siècle
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Histoire de la découverte des îles Açores, et de l'origine de leur dénomination d'îles flamandes. Ghent: Vuylsteke.
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The most notable is the depiction of the islands of the Azores (officially discovered in 1431 by Henry's captain
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Proposed by José Gomez Imaz, director of the reproduction for the 1892 centenary (as quoted in Mees, p.71)
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of 1375). Other readings decipher "deserta" (rather than de Sperta), "jlla bela" (instead of
Guatrilla),
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315:(Transl. "These islands were found by Diego de ? pilot of the King of Portugal in the year 14??")
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Aquestes isles foram trobades p diego de ??? pelot del rey de portugal an lay MCCCCXX?II
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Questa ampia pella di geographia fue pagata da Amerigo Vespuci - LXXX ducati di oro di marco
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90:. Vallseca wrote out his last will in the city of Majorca in 1467 and died shortly after.
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Chronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné.... pelo Chronista Gomes Eannes de Azurara'
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in the 1480s, and that he might have even have taken it on his 1497-1504 voyages to the
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1432 is preferred by Santarem, again allowing for Gonçalo Velho's discovery of 1431
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Western portion of anonymous Vallseca chart (c.1440) (Bib. Nat. Cen., Florence)
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for "judaizing", which suggests their father Gabriel may also have been a
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and the date as 1427, which is now commonly cited in Portuguese sources.
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Novinsky, A.W. (1990) "Papel dos Judeus nos Grandes Descobrimentos", in
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1439 portolan chart of Gabriel de Vallseca (Museu Maritim, Barcelona)
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in 1452; Vallseca apparently lifted these last two from the
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Gabriell de Valsequa la feta en Malorcha, any MCCC.XXX.VIIII
151:(Rés. Ge. D 3005) - fragments of the eastern Mediterranean
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in Barcelona in 1917. It was transferred in 1960 to the
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Signature of Gabriel de Vallseca from 1447 portolan chart
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1447 portolan chart of Gabriel de Vallseca (BNF, Paris).
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Visconde de Santarem, note in 1841 edition of Zurara's
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The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
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II (1437). In 1943, historian Damião Peres proposed
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195:colored red, and scattered notes and labels in the
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714:, 3 vols.; Lisbon, 1937, vol. 1, pp. 291ff.
672:C.R. Beazley and E. Prestage, editors (1896–99)
754:"Vallseca, Gabriel de" in Miquel Dolç, editor,
745:. São Paulo, vol. 11 (21), Sep, pp. 65–76.
155:Although his style conforms to the traditional
167:, miniature humans, animals and plants, the
227:and including the Atlantic islands of the
75:relatives through his mother or his wife.
550:The accident is related in George Sand's
712:História da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo
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142:Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
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308:. The current note reads as follows:
239:, as well as the imaginary islands of
125:(Rés. Ge. C4607) - Mediterranean only
721:. Barcelona: JJ. De Olañeta Editor.
719:La cartografia mallorquina a Mallorca
659:. See also Jordão de Freitas (1937)
451:, where it is currently on display.
144:(portolà 16) - partial mappa mundi
47:of Jewish descent connected to the
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758:, vol. 18, Palma: Promomallorca.
118:(inv. 3236) - partial mappa mundi
700:D'Avezac, M.A.P. Marquis (1845)
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149:Bibliothèque nationale de France
123:Bibliothèque nationale de France
63:Gabriel de Vallseca was born in
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748:Visconde de Santarem (1841)
443:, which deposited it at the
441:Institute of Catalan Studies
424:(instead of Osels/Uccello),
157:Majorcan cartographic school
132:(CN 22) - Mediterranean only
130:Archivio di Stato di Firenze
49:Majorcan cartographic school
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191:as a shepherd's crook, the
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521:Ginard Bujosa, p.59. Also
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140:Undated map (est.1440) at
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686:Cortesão, Armando (1954)
428:(instead of Frydols) and
106:There are three existing
704:, Paris: Fain et Thunot
690:, as reprinted in 1975,
290:Antonio Despuig y Dameto
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795:Spanish Roman Catholics
688:A Carta Nautica de 1424
261:The 1439 map is signed
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394:Ylla de Corp-Marinos
332:II (1432) or MCCCCXX
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256:Gonçalo Velho Cabral
183:as a horseshoe, the
121:Map of 1447, at the
114:Map of 1439, at the
43:, after 1467) was a
732:Mees, Jules (1901)
676:, London: Hakluyt,
655:A. Cortesão, 1954:
552:Un hiver à Majorque
269:, who paid 80 gold
217:Henry the Navigator
128:Map of 1449 at the
84:Spanish Inquisition
33:Gabriel de Valsequa
25:Gabriel de Vallseca
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512:Novinsky (1990:68)
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350:Santa Maria
299:George Sand
221:Scandinavia
774:Categories
500:References
358:São Miguel
225:Rio de Oro
88:crypto-Jew
645:p. lxxxvi
642:Chronicle
540:0211-092X
388:(erased,
378:de Sperta
374:São Jorge
370:Guatrilla
348:(Ucello,
283:New World
273:for it. (
165:wind rose
69:conversos
65:Barcelona
55:islands.
37:Barcelona
692:Esparsos
634:Chronica
366:Terceira
279:Florence
237:Canaries
203:1439 Map
177:the Alps
73:Majorcan
785:Atlases
667:Sources
623:, p.83.
426:faucols
233:Madeira
193:Red Sea
181:Bohemia
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736:online
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657:p.157n
567:Mees,
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406:Flores
402:Conigi
400:) and
306:Azores
271:ducats
245:Brazil
229:Azores
185:Danube
53:Azores
638:p.390
398:Corvo
390:Faial
241:Thule
189:Tagus
94:Works
41:Palma
760:ISBN
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556:p.63
536:ISSN
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59:Life
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