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Abraham Cresques

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Gender Male
Born Palma
Spain
DiedPalma
Spain
1387
Palma
Spain
BooksCatalan Atlas, Mapamundi, the Catalan Atlas of the Year 1375
Catalan Atlas
Mapamundi, the Catalan Atlas of the Year 1375
Children Jehuda Cresques
Date of birth January 1,1325
NationalitySpanish
Other nameEliça, son of Rabbi Abraham
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Abraham Cresques, whose real name was Cresques Abraham, was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca, then part of the Crown of Aragon. In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credited with the authorship of the celebrated Catalan Atlas of 1375.

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