Catalan Atlas

The Catalan World Atlas is a 1375 card in the workshop of Abraham and Jehuda Cresques incurred in Mallorca Atlas. It consists of six double vision, 64 inches x 50 inches in size that represent a so-called PORTOLAN cards, the coasts and ports of some areas with particular accuracy.

The atlas was a commissioned work for the heir to the throne and became King Peter IV of Aragon and shows the known world from the Atlantic to China. It is based on information that the Jewish family Cresques by sailors gave up, ran their routes via node Mallorca.

The atlas was donated in 1380 by King Peter IV of Aragon to the French king Charles V. He is still kept in the French National Library in Paris under the signature Espagnol 30 (also Esp. 30).

The Catalan World Atlas and some other cards of the 14th and 15th centuries, have been preserved, show some islands in the Atlantic, which are not marked on any map today. These so-called Flyaway Islands existed only in the imagination of former sailors. In reality there is not.