COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
02301
File Name:
02301-10
Call number:
F596 L759i / 1-SIZE [R] (copy 1)
Map title:
Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio ex peritissimorum totius orbis Gaeographorum operibus desumta.
Place of Publication:
Antverpiae [Antwerp]
Publisher:
apud Joañem Baptistam Vrient
Publication date:
[1596]
Map size height:
39.5 cm.
Map size width:
57.2 cm.
Item description:
engraving, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of the world in hemispheres includes two insets of the heavens. Decorative elements include allegorical figures of the four continents. The allegorical figure of America is shown wearing a feathered headdress, holding an ax and arrow, and riding on an armadillo. Also includes llamas [?] and a scene of cannibalism with a man butchering a limb while another limb roasts on a fire. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude, some topographical details, location of rivers and settlements. Also includes ships, fish or sea monsters, astrological symbols, cornucopia, bears, elephants, camels, crocodile or alligator, lion, horses, and oxen.
Source author:
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611
Source title:
[Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, inhoudende een corte beschryvinghe der selver landen ende zee-custen...]
Source place:
t'Amstelredam. : By Cornelis Claesz. op't vvater, in't schrijf-boeck, by de oude brugghe., Anno M.D.XCVI.
References:
Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the World, 192
Geographic Area:
World
Historical notes:
Linschoten worked in the service of the Portuguese archbishop of Goa from 1583 to 1588. His Itinerario, written after his return to Holland, is important for the inclusion of maps from Portuguese sources. This world map, copied from Petrus Plancius' 1594 map was engraved by Arnoldus and Henricus Florentinus van Langren, sons of Jacob van Langren. Arnoldus was the father of Michael van Langren, first cosmographer to map the moon accurately.
Normalized date:
1596
Creator:
Henricus F. ab (Henricus Florentius) Langren
Creator:
Arnold Florent van Langren
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