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Genoese world map
1457
parchment

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Portolano 1

The map illustrates the emerged lands distributed across the fourth part of the terraqueous globe, bounded by the equatorial semi-arc and the meridian semi-arc; the cusps are the eastern and western cardinal points. The Earthly Paradise is mentioned in a cartouche in the southernmost part of Africa.