par Robles Macias, Luis 
Référence On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart (international workshop) (6-8 October 2021)
Publication Non publié, 2021-10-08
Référence On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart (international workshop) (6-8 October 2021)
Publication Non publié, 2021-10-08
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | Toponyms account for much of the information content of a map and can be leveraged to probe the origin and authorship of unsigned works. For medieval portolan charts of the Mediterranean, the evolution of their toponyms is now well understood thanks to decades of scholarship that have culminated in a comprehensive database compiled by Tony Campbell. The pace at which toponymic innovations were gradually introduced can now be precisely quantified up to the late 15th century. Furthermore, it is now possible to characterize each of the main three centers of medieval chart production – Venice, Genoa and Mallorca – by a particular corpus of toponymic conventions. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Portugal and Andalusia emerged as major producers of portolan charts. A detailed study of the toponyms of such maps has unexpectedly brought to light a great number of apparent toponymic innovations, never seen earlier or later in charts made in the Mediterranean. Around a hundred of these innovations appear on two or more different charts. They thus constitute a fourth, separate corpus of toponymic conventions that can be reliably used to identify charts made in Portugal or Andalusia (West Iberia for short). The presence of this corpus even in the earliest extant Portuguese chart also suggests that chart-making in the region may have started earlier than commonly thought. |
