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All alterations of any substance, since publication on 7 March 2011, are signalled as such by a note between { }
This page lists those that might be considered to have more significance

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2012

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A major section on Toponymy, comprising three webpages and over 35 tables & graphs, was added on 18 February 2012
• Toponymy Main Menu
• Innovative Portolan Chart Names (an extended essay)
• Abandoned Portolan Chart Names (a note, with tables & graphs)
• The Methodology behind the Table of 'Significant Names' and its analysis

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• Some areas for possible future research into Portolan Chart history [Expanded - 11 February 2012]
• General Conclusions [Expanded - 11 February 2012]
• The dating of British Library Add. 27376* [New - 11 February 2012]
• Securely dated post-1469 charts used for the transcription or selective checking of the place-names between Dunkirk and Mogador (a Microsoft Word table) [Updated - 8 February 2012]
• Securely dated post-1469 charts (online scans) [Revised - 7 February 2012]
• Table of 'Significant Names'- those that first appear on portolan charts after 1311 (and are repeated regularly thereafter) or those that disappear before 1600 (a Microsoft Word table) [Extensive revision completed - 22 January 2012]

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  2011

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• Toponymy (on the number of lines a scribe could produce each day) [New - 28 April 2011]
• Andrea Bianco's "London" chart of 1448 [New - 28 April 2011]
• A deeper understanding of the function of portolan charts (a central paragraph commenting on the placement of the toponyms) [New - 25 April 2011]
• Survival and lost charts (a final paragraph noting a survival rate of c.1% for Dutch East India Company charts from the 17th and 18th centuries) [New - 25 April 2011]

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