Mecia de Viladestes

[2] In 1401, he was conveyed to Sicily under license from the governor of Mallorca, presumably one of the Jews forcibly converted to Christianity around this time.

The map, which measures 1.21 X 0.87m, was discovered by Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva in the archives of the Carthusian monastery of the Val de Cristo, near the town of Segorbe in Spain.

[7] The map is notable as one of the first to show detail of Africa south of the Atlas Mountains.

[2] The north Atlantic shows a whaling ship, and Great Britain is shown without the distortion or "turning" of Scotland that is found in later maps, after Ptolemy's Geography became available in Latin translation.

This convention may have led to later portolan charts showing England and Scotland as separate islands.