This nautical map painted in color on an entire parchment, has a triangular addendum on the top left side, about 9cm long. On this addendum is painted the image of the Madonna and Child with two angels. The map is rimmed in gold and colors, and includes the entire Mediterranean and Black Seas, the Atlantic coast of Africa up to C. Cinassa, the European coasts until Dinimarca and Laudes (where the design is discontinued) and all the British Isles. Coastlines are rimmed in yellow, islands in various colors, names in black and red. On the four edges of the map, in gold letters are named the four cardinal points in Latin. On the top left there is a shield, and underneath it, an inscription in three lines: 'Vincentius demetrei Volcius | Rachuseus Fecit in Ciuitate | Neapolis die 15 Iulii 1606'. Inside the map there are nine figures of kings and a few regional names. The topography of the map is very rich. Seven of Vincenzo di Demetrio Volcio's cartographic known works, including six maps and a small atlas of three maps, covering the period between 1592-1607, were produced in Livorno or Naples. According to Almagià, Volcio's nautical maps do not have specific highlights, for they embrace only the normally represented areas of the Portulan; and provide details only for the Adriatic and the Aegean Seas. As one can see from this map, the Adriatic area is particularly abundant in place names. As far as we know, Volcio is the first cartographer who worked in Livorno, and perhaps he is linked to the laboratory of Cavallini, active in the city during the 17th century.

Reference:

^[1]. ALMAGIÀ, R. (1944). Planisferi, carte nautiche e affini dal secolo XIV al XVII esistenti nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. In Monumenta cartographica vaticana (vol.1, p.87). Città del Vaticano.

^[2]. ALMAGIÀ, R. (1933). Intorno al cartografo raguseo Vincenzo di Demetrio Volcio. In Archivio storico per la Dalmazia, Vol. XV, pp. 202-208.

^[3]. DONATI, L. (1928). Una carta nautica del 1606 di Vincenzo Demetrio Volcio da Ragusa. In Archivio storico per la Dalmazia, Vol. VI, pp. 314-323.