IN NORTHERN MISTS 



reproduction in Nordenskiold's "Periplus" (pi. vii) the words are: "gulfo de 

 issolle CCCLVIII.i beate et fortunate" ("the gulf of the 358 blessed and 

 happy islands"), as also found on some later maps.- I have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining the map of the British Isles in the same draughtsman's 

 atlas of 1321, to see whether this happy lake and the isle of Brazil are given 

 there; the gulf with the 358 islands is stated to be on Vesconte-Sanudo maps 

 [cf. Harrisse, 1892, pp. 57 f.], which I have also had no opportunity of con- 

 sulting. 



Angellino Dulcert's (Dalorto's)" map of 1339^ differs some- 

 what from the map of 1325 (1330?) in its delineation of the 

 North, in that Norway is given a narrower and more rectangular 

 form, with only those four headlands on the south side which are 

 largest on the map of 1325, while the country with the smaller 

 headlands to the west of these is cut away, whereby the 

 narrower shape is brought about.^ 



Dalorto's maps of 1325 and 1339 furnish the prototype for 

 the representation of the North in later compass-charts; and 

 this persists without important alteration until well into the 

 fifteenth century. But while later Italian charts [cf. Pizigano's 

 of 1367] more closely resemble the Italian Dalorto map of 1325, 

 the Majorca map of 1339 represents the type of the later Catalan 

 charts. In the one preserved at Modena, and dating from 

 about 1350,' the Catalan compass-chart is combined with the 

 representation of the world of the wheel-maps. We find the 

 picture of the North to be the same in all its main outlines; 

 but here a new feature is added, in that Iceland appears as a 

 group of eight islands in the far north-west, out on the margin 

 of the map, with the note : " questas illes son appellades 



1 The number with the preceding words is also evidently given in the line 

 below. 



2 Cf. Th. Fischer, 1886, p. 42; Hamy, 1889, p. 366; Magnaghi, 1899, p. 2. 

 I have not been able to find this legend on Dalorto's map of 1339 (in the 

 reproduction in Nordenskiold's "Periplus," pi. viii.), where Magnaghi asserts 

 that it is to be found. 



3 Cf. Hamy, 1888, 1903; Nordenskiold, 1897, pi. viii; Kretschmer, 1909, p. 

 188. 



* This is the same form as on the later maps, pp. 231, 232, 233. 



5 For a description and reproduction of the Modena chart, see Kretschmer, 

 1897; PuUe and Longhena, 1907. 

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