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| 14th century. | Eight bell tents on the lower left, gold ball apexes, black lines delineate the roof panels on white, the roof edge is red with a black line through the centre, the walls have vertical red stripes on the white material, the open flap reveal a yellow inner lining. | “Map of Europe, North Africa and the Near East, Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris, Esp 30, ‘The Catalan Atlas’, Spain, Majora, 14th century”
“...In this detailed picture from an early map of West Africa, Mansa Musa receives a Saharan merchant and presents him with gold.” British Library. |
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/aman6/i8_000a.htm
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i8_0000a.jpg Dorling Kindersly Ltd., Quest for the Past, Surry Hills, 1985, p. 280. |
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