At the Venice Boat Show, Treccani presented a reproduction of the manuscript Douce 390, preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. This is an anonymous nautical atlas from the late 14th to early 15th century, and the original case that contained it (Douce 360*). The volume includes seven handwritten nautical charts of the naval routes between the Black Sea to the Mediterranean to the English Channel; the original, made in Venice between the last quarter of the fourteenth century and the first quarter of the fifteenth century, features the typical Italian nautical style of that period.
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This lavish volume is accompanied by an important Commentary with extensions, explanations, and contemporary professional testimonies of great value. A foreword by Massimo Bray, an introduction by Andrew Dunning, medieval nautical cartography and codicological record by Piero Falchetta, and Valentina Baradel’s contribution: ‘When miniature meets nautical chart: Nicolò di Pietro and the illustrations of ms. Douce 390’. (Assia Karaguiozova) Treccani.it
