| Jehuda Cresques |
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| 1350 births | |
| 1427 deaths | |
| people from mallorca | |
| jewish spanish history | |
| spanish cartographers | |
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Son of another noted cartographer, Abraham Cresques , he was born in Majorca in present-day Spain . Together he and his father were the probable authors of the famous Catalan Atlas of 1375 . Born to a Jewish family, after the Aragon ese persecutions of 1391 he converted to Christianity, at which time he took the name Jaume Riba (Jacobus Ribus, in Latin ). As such, he would have been eligible to be the Portuguese coordinator in the 1420s, and a ''Mestre Jacome de Malhorca'' is recorded as holding that position. Most authorities accept that the two were the same person. SEE ALSO |