Cresques Abraham
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cartographer from Palma, Majorca
Key facts
- Born
- 1325, Palma , Mallorca
- Died
- 1387 (aged 61 – 62)
- Other names
- Eliça, son of Rabbi Abraham
- Occupation
- cartographer
- Known for
- Catalan Atlas
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abraham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Crown of Aragon
- Place of birth
- Palma
- Place of death
- Palma
- Child
- Jehuda Cresques
- Occupation
- geographer
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- cartography
- Work location
- Mallorca
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- Commons category
- Abraham Cresques
- date of birth
- 1325-07-01
- date of death
- 1383-03-00
- Commons Creator page
- Abraham Cresques
- has works in the collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Encyclopedic overview
Cresques Abraham ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkɾeskəs əβɾəˈam], 1325–1387) was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Mallorca, 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.
Personal life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cresques Abraham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.