| The Catalan Atlas | |
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 Mansa Musa in the Catalan Atlas | |
| Rap battle information | |
| Appeared in | Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa |
| Character(s) | Mansa Musa |
| Release date | November 27, 2021 |
| Times appeared | 1 |
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The Catalan Atlas is where Mansa Musa briefly rapped in Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa.
Information on the Location
The Catalan Atlas is a medieval world map, or mappamundi, created in 1375 that has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language, and as "the zenith of medieval map-work".
It was produced by the Majorcan cartographic school, possibly by Cresques Abraham, a Jewish book illuminator who was described by a contemporary as a master of mappae mundi as well as of compasses. It was in the royal library of France (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France) by 1380, in the time of King Charles V. The Catalan Atlas originally consisted of six vellum leaves folded vertically, painted in various colours including gold and silver. They were later mounted on the front and back of five wooden panels, with the ends enclosed in a leather binding by Simon Vostre c.1515, restored most recently in 1991. Wear has split each leaf into two.
Appearance in the rap battle
The map appears briefly in Mansa Musa's first verse, where it formed while saying "The hottest on the map since the Atlas of Catalan!"
