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EL Libro del conosçimiento: the cartographic imagination in a journey through the images

Abstract

El Libro del conosçimiento, written around 1385, was described as Spanish Mandeville, not without reason. However, this collection of merveilles has long been read as a real travel narrative and is thus cited as a source of information in the chronological history of the shipment of Jean de Béthencourt to the Canary Islands in 1402. The credibility of the image of the world offered by this text is certainly due to its cartographic inspiration. The journey is that of a letterpiece in space that...

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