Abstract
This article is based on daily life data of the Jewish community on the island of Majorca during the 14th century, which produced most of the surviving examples of medieval cartography that was agreed to call as Portulano, and among them the Espagnol Manuscript 30, better known as Catalan Atlas. It pretends to understand the organizational form that allowed this production as well as types of materials and necessary knowledge for its execution and if this productive organization can support the concept of the Majorcan cartographic school, frequently used by cartography historians. The expression “obrador” in medieval Catalonia covers the space in which the raw material is transformed, not only in an individual place, but covering, in most cases, several contiguous spaces that makes viable several stages of production.
Keywords:
Historical cartography; Jewish culture; material culture