Source: Above legend: The caravan of the Polo brothers left the Empire of Sarra to go to Catayo, across the Great Desert (Sarai, on the Edil [Volga], was the capital of the Kipchak Tartars, from which the Polos had set out about 1262.
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This 'atlas' was the
work of Abraham Cresques who worked in Majorca at the end of the 14th
century and was commissioned by Charles V of France at a time when the
reputation of the Catalan chart makers was at its peak. Considered the best Majorcan mapmaker of the time:
Abraham Cresques.contained the latest information on
Asia and China and has subsequently been called "the most complete picture of
geographical knowledge as it stood in the later Middle Ages."
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