The seventh and eighth sheets of the eight-sheet tammar luxoro atlas, a set of anonymous italian portolan charts, believed to have been made by the venetian cartographer francesco de cesanis, sometime before 1421, and held by the biblioteca civica berio in genoa, italy. Sheet 7 (oriented with west on top) depicts the east mediterranean (nile delta, levantine coast, southern anatolia)
sheet 8 (oriented with east on top) depicts the black sea. Date: Early 15th C. (pre-1421).
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