Salvete Omnes,
continuing with the theme of Magi in the spirit of this holiday, I would like to bring to your attention the map and miniatures by a team of father and son, Cresques Abraham and Jehuda Cresques, Jewish cartographers from Palma de Mallorca, Crown of Aragon, working under the protection of the kings of the Crown of Aragon.
The atlas - circa 1378AD - digitalised and available on FN library Gallica, shows among others our 3 kings in route to Bethlehem in Holy Land (nota bene it is located in Palestine, Western Asia -:) ).
Horses, camels and riders - lovely details, all done inside the world of XIV century map
then there is Polish realm - Crown of Poland and various Piast duchies of Silesia and Masovia, and Kingdom of Bohemia, and Hungarian Crown and Holy Roman Empire.
Valete
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