Caverio map

It is composed of ten sections or panels, the whole forming a rectangle measuring 2.25 by 1.15 metres.

The map is signed with "Nicolay de Caveri Januensis".

[1] The inscription off the coast of vera cruz (America/Brazil) says: “The land called Vera Cruz was found by Pedro Alvares Cabral, a gentleman of the household of the King of Portugal.

He discovered it as commander of a fleet of 14 ships that that King sent to Calicut, and on the way to India, he came across this land here, which he took to be terra firma [mainland] in which there are many people, described as going about, men and women, as naked as their mothers bore them; they are lighter-skinned.

The Cavario Map is currently kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.