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A Majorcan Jew, Cresques was a master map-maker and builder of clocks, compasses, and other nautical instruments. He was a leading member of the Majorcan cartographic school.BOOK, Gunn, Geoffrey C., Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region, 15 October 2018, Rowman & Littlefield, 978-1-4985-9014-3, 67,weblink en, Abraham Cresques's real name was Eliça (a.k.a. Cresques) son of Rabbi Abraham, son of Rabbi Benaviste, son of Rabbi Eliça. Eliça was the name he would have received when he came of age but known as Cresques of Abraham (Cresques being his personal name, Eliça his religious name, Abraham his patronym), but the order is often flipped in most subsequent literature. His son, Jehuda Cresques, was also a notable cartographer.The Catalan Atlas
(File:1375 Atlas Catalan Abraham Cresques.jpg|thumb|500px|The 8 page montage of the Catalan Atlas)In 1375, Cresques and his son Jehuda received an assignment from Prince John of Aragon, the future John I of Aragon, to make a set of nautical charts which would go beyond the normal geographic range of contemporary portolan charts to cover the East and the West, and everything that, from the Strait [of Gibraltar] leads to the West. For this job, Cresques and Jehuda were paid 150 Aragonese golden florins, and 60 Mallorcan pounds, respectively, as it is stated in 14th-century documents from the Prince and his father Peter IV of Aragon. Prince John intended to present the chart to his cousin Charles, later to be Charles VI, King of France, as a gift. In that year 1375 Cresques and Jehuda drew the six charts that composed the Catalan Atlas at their house in the Jewish quarter of Palma.Works attributed to Cresques
The Catalan Atlas of c. 1375 is the only map that has been confidently attributed to Cresques Abraham. Researchers have suggested that five other existing maps might also be attributed to Cresques, Jehuda or some other worker in the Cresques atelier.BOOK, Pujades i Bataller, Ramon J., 2007, Les cartes portolanes: la representació medieval d'una mar solcada, Barcelona, 63, Like the Catalan Atlas itself, these five maps (four portolan charts, one fragment of a mappa mundi), are unsigned and undated, and their date of composition estimated sometime between 1375 and 1400.- Catalan Atlas, c. 1375, 6 panels, map from the Atlantic Ocean to China, held (MS Esp 30) at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, France
- Venice chart, c. 1375-1400, portolan chart (missing northern Europe), held (It.IV,1912) at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, Italy
- Florence chart, c. 1375-1400, portolan chart (west Mediterranean only) held (Port.22) at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy
- Naples chart, c. 1375-1400, normal portolan chart held (ms.XII.D102) at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples, Italy
- Istanbul map c. 1375-1400, fragment of mappa mundi, held (1828) at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey
- Paris chart, c. 1400, portolan chart held (AA751) at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, France
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- Images of the whole Catalan Atlas in high resolution and weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080221191711weblink">Images of the whole Catalan Atlas archived and accessed 2008-03-14 Bibliothèque nationale de France
- www.cresquesproject.netâTranslation in English of the works of Riera i Sans and Gabriel Llompart on the Jewish Majorcan mapmakers of the Late Middle Ages. They include very complete biographies of Cresques Abraham and his son Jafudà Cresques.
Bibliography
- BOOK, Kogman-Appel, Katrin, Catalan maps and Jewish books : the intellectual profile of Elisha Ben Abraham Cresq̧ues (1325-1387), 2020, Brepols, Turnhout, 978-2-503-58548-2,
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