The Red Sea is shown in red, with brown wavy lines and a passageway marked for the Israelites of the Exodus.

Mountains
The Red Sea
North
Cities
Africa
Rivers and Lakes

In this portolan chart Canepa has the Red Sea flowing off the bottom of the portolan chart in a southeasterly direction into the Gulf of Aden. This shows more accurate knowledge of the Red Sea, which is an improvement on the earlier Roselli chart (1466) in the James Ford Bell Library.


1466 Roselli

1489 Canepa


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The 1489 Canepa
north
south
west
East
center

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