page_title: Abraham Cresques
section_title: The Catalan Atlas
hierarchical_section_title: Abraham Cresques / The Catalan Atlas
caption_attribution_description: English: Atlas from the 14th century attributed to Abraham Cresques. Français&#160;: Atlas du XIVe siècle attribué à Abraham Cresques. Cet atlas de cartes marines en langue catalane a été réalisé en 1375 environ. Nederlands: Montage van 8 pagina's uit de Catelaanse Atlas van Cresques; de toenmalig bekende wereld.
context_page_description: Abraham Cresques, whose real name was Cresques Abraham, was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca. In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credited with the authorship of the celebrated Catalan Atlas of 1375.
context_section_description: In 1375, Cresques and his son Jehuda received an assignment from Prince John of Aragon (the future John I of Aragon) to make a set of nautical charts which would go beyond the normal geographic range of contemporary portolan charts to cover the East and the West, and everything that, from the Strait [of Gibraltar] leads to the West. For this job, Cresques and Jehuda would be paid 150 Aragonese golden florins, and 60 Mallorcan pounds, respectively, as it is stated in 14th-century documents from the Prince himself and his father Peter IV of Aragon. Prince John intended to present the chart to his cousin Charles (later to be Charles VI, King of France) as a gift. In that year 1375 Cresques and Jehuda drew the six charts that composed the Catalan Atlas at their house in the Jewish quarter of Palma.
caption: Montage of 8 pages of the Catalan Atlas
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