It was drawn up by Jorge de Aguiar in 1492. I can't find it anywhere, but I swear I once read that Jorge's father made the oldest surviving complete map of the world, or something similarly impressive. Regardless, the compass rose from the Portuguese chart is beautiful.
Here's a cleaned-up version.

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