Map of Juan de la Cosa

The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and cartographer, Juan de la Cosa, and was likely created in 1500.

Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing.

In addition, he takes into account the explorations of John Cabot, Vicente Pinzon, and Pedro Álvares Cabral.

[8][9] The region of Central America is covered with an image of Saint Christopher bearing the infant Christ across the water.

[10][11] Columbus may have presented the chart to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1503 and then later it was passed on to Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, the councilor to the king.

Nothing else is known of the map until it was purchased from a junk shop dealer in Paris by Baron Charles-Athanase Walckenaer early in the nineteenth century.