The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is particularly notable for its extensive marginalia. Vesconte’s notes, written in Latin, describe in fascinating detail the lands and seas which his map depicts, but, tantalisingly, not all of his locations have yet been accounted for. While we await the results of the ongoing forensic inspections – including pigment and fibre sampling and analysis – Apocrypha, in an exclusive collaboration with the Università di Padova, is very excited to announce the publication of, for the first time ever, a translation of Vesconte’s marginalia.