Cornaro Atlas

The Cornaro Atlas was brought to England in 1832, and is currently held (Egerton MS 73) by the British Library in London.

The second half of the volume is dedicated to a myriad of written tracts on matters of nautical interest (e.g. astronomy, sailing directions, tariffs, etc.)

Most cartographers are named, some of them notables, such as Grazioso Benincasa of Ancona and Petrus Rosell of Majorca, others are lesser known.

Notable in this collection are the final charts on West Africa ("Portuguese Guinea") by an anonymous cartographer (often attributed to Cristoforo Soligo), which seem to be based on a Portuguese nautical chart.

It is one of the few indicators of the existence of Portuguese portolans from before the earliest extant specimens.