Magi by a Jewish Cartographer from Aragon

 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

Battle of Byczyna continued

Salve,
 winter is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere as it was 425 years ago when armies met at the Byczyna battlefield to hotly and bloodily determine what course of history Polish Commonwealth was to take, with Maximilian and the Hapsburga or with the Vasa prince and democracy of the szlachta.


    I prepared a map to show the battle array of the Maximilian's forces as they were awaiting the attack of Zamoyski and his army, based on the map from the prof. Marek Plewczyński's article mentioned yesterday.

Also two sketches of Hungarian winged hussars, one really work in progress ...

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Ergo, more to follow, I hope.