Albertinus de Virga
Illustration — Portolan chart of Albertinus de Virga, 1409 (BNF, Paris) Albertinus de Virga (or Albertin de Virga) was a 15th-century Venetian cartographer. Practically nothing is known of his life, save that he was probably Venetian. Virga is the author of two famous maps: • 1409 portolan chart, 43 x 68 cm, covering the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Atlantic coast, and signed "A 1409 Alber..Virga me fezit in Vinexia".
Albertinus de Virga
Albertinus de Virga · Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (D.7900) · Public domain
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- 1350 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- geographer · cartographer
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- De Virga world map
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Currently held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France. (D.7900) • The De Virga world map, a mappa mundi 69.6 x 44 cm, signed "A. Albertin diuirga me fecit in vinexia", where the date has been read as between 1411 and 1415, that was once in the private collection of Albrecht Frigdor of Vienna, but has since gone missing. It has been tentatively suggested that Virga might also have been the author of a third map, an anonymous portolan chart dating from the beginning of the 15th century currently held (Port.40) by the Museo Correr in Venice, Italy.
Albertinus de Virga is recorded as geographer and cartographer.
Sujet: Méditerranéen, Bassin -- Cartes nautiques -- Côtes Mer Noire -- Cartes nautiques -- Côtes Europe -- Cartes nautiques -- Côtes Grande-Bretagne, Île de -- Cartes nautiques -- Côtes Afrique -- Nord -- Cartes nautiques -- Côtes Proche-Orient -- Cartes nautiques -- Côtes Ancien possesseur: Tross, Edwin (1822-1875). Ancien possesseur Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire: PortulFr Couverture:
Virga, Albertinus de (13..-14..? · Bibliothèque nationale de France
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1350
Albertinus de Virga was born in 1350 at Venice.
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Egredietur virga - Maria porta, Sous la Règle de saint Augustin, 2000
Trouée de virga, La Météorologie, 2019
Virga strata, Oxford Music Online, 2001
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