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   Roselli
   Petrus / Pietro
   P. R. ; Petrus Rosellus / Pietro Roselli
   
   
   1447 ?on Majorca, now Spain?
   1489
   
   perhaps his grandfather: Nicholas Roselli, a cardinal, died in Majorca in 1367.
   his family was originally from Italy. His ancestors may have included Italian Jews who lived in Barcelona & converted to Christianity in 13thc.
   
   Spain
   
   Spanish King
   
   maritime & cartographic map-making ; drawing & hand-colouring
   http://www.mesenburg.de/Seiten/Porolane/Einzelkarten/Petrus-Roselli/Petrus-Roselli_Portolan.htm
   https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/bell/map/PORTO/ROS/petrus.html
   Heinrich Winter in Imago Mundi 9 (Winter 1952):1-11; Die Portulankarte des P.R. von 1449 - Kartographie im Mittelalter, Karlsruhe 1989; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere, 2007: 32 ; Focus 1993: 116, 659f., 778;
   1446 -1449 active on the island of Mallorca, now Spain
   49902284
   
   


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