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The Introduction and Abandonment of Toponyms
on Portolan Charts
1300 to 1600
(with an extended essay, supported by tables and graphs)
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Two major additions to the toponymic studies were made in September 2013:
Listing and analysis of portolan chart toponyms along
the continuous coastline from Dunkirk to Mogador (early 14th to late 17th century)
including the transcribed names from
the 'Liber de existencia riveriarum' and 'Lo compasso de navegare'
as well as the Carte Pisane and Cortona chart
Red Names on the Portolan Charts (1311-1677:
a detailed investigation
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SUMMARY
CONCLUSIONS
LISTING OF PORTOLAN CHART PLACE-NAMES
[All 1,800 recurring names between Dunkirk and Mogador - NB this
is a large Microsoft Office Word 2003 table which opens separately]
METHODOLOGY
ANALYSIS
Historical Comments
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Themed Comments
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TABLES AND GRAPHS
The following tables are in Microsoft Office Word 3 format
A. Innovative Names
Toponymic additions
- The addition of 'Significant Names' to the
31 sections of coastline (tables)
- 1. Detailed listing
- 2. Sources used in compiling the table, 'The addition of Significant Names to the 31 sections of
coastline'
- 3. Innovative name totals by individuals to 1600
- 4. The percentages of innovative names found in 31 designated coastal sections over five periods
- 5. The 31 sections ranked according to the amount of change in each of the five periods
(i.e. the lower the number the greater the quantity of innovative names)
- 6. The 31 sections arranged in order by decreasing percentage of change in each of the five periods
(i.e. those at the end of each list have the most innovations)
- The addition of 'Significant Names'
to the seven main regions (graphs & tables)
- 1. Totals of new and abandoned names compared, 1318-1600
- 2. The addition of new, recurring names to the seven regions over five periods
- 3. The addition of new, recurring names to the seven regions over five periods -
shown in relation to the 'Foundation Names' (up to 1313)
Tables
- 4. The seven main regions: innovative names summarised by date
- 5. Summary table of innovations by date and place of production to 1500
Precursor and irregular names
- A. General Table
- B. Summary
- C. Shared names on the four source documents
- D. Early portolano names not picked up by the Carte Pisane and Cortona chart
- A. Examples of long time-gaps before the apparent second appearance of Vescontian names on dated
works
- B. Examples of the reintroduction of discarded names
- C. Instances of the delay in picking up Portuguese names in the Mediterranean
- D. A selection of the intermittent names between Toulon and Genoa on the work of Benincasa
- E. Numbered names listed in Pujades (2009) from the 1439 Vallseca chart, which are not included in
the 'Significant Names' listing, or where our interpretations are different
Catalonia & Valencia and the northern Adriatic (rare names and
toponymic recurrence - based on Pujades)
- 1. Catalonia & Valencia (Pujades 2007, pp.386-97)
- A. Second appearance of Catalonia & Valencia names on Italian and Catalan charts respectively (up to 1469)
- B. Summary Table
- 2. Northern Adriatic (Pujades, pp.350-85 - with supplementary information from Falchetta)
- A. Second appearance of northern Adriatic names on Italian and Catalan charts respectively (up to 1469)
- B. Summary Table
- C. Catalonia & Valencia and northern Adriatic: the two summaries summarised
- D. Catalonia & Valencia and northern Adriatic: the time-lags summarised (the number of instances of the approximate number of years before a name's first reappearance)
- E. Catalonia & Valencia and northern Adriatic: the first reappearances of Italian names on 15th-century Catalan
charts
TABLES AND GRAPHS
The following tables are in Microsoft Office Word 3 format
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