HISTORICAL MAPS · 1558 (CLAIMED TO RECORD VOYAGES OF C. 1380)

The Zeno Map

A Venetian family's map of North Atlantic voyages that may never have happened. It put a non-existent island on the world's maps for more than a century.

Made by: Published by Nicolò Zeno the Younger, Venice
Date: 1558 (claimed to record voyages of c. 1380)
Held by: Shown in a 19th-century facsimile
Medium: Woodcut (facsimile)

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