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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
17000
File Name:
17000-2
Call number:
Codex Sp 7 / 1-SIZE
Map title:
[Descripcion delas Yndias del Norte.]
Place of Publication:
[Madrid?]
Publication date:
[1575]
Map size height:
20.9 cm.
Map size width:
28.8 cm. [both pages]
Item description:
manuscript map; following leaf 6
Geographical description:
Map of North America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and the northern part of South America divided into the different audiencias of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Nueva Galicia, Mexico, Guatemala, Hispaniola, and Panama.
Source author:
Lopez de Velasco, Juan
Source title:
Demarcacion y diuision de las Yndias
Source place:
[Madrid? 1575?]
Cartobibliographic notes:
The maps in this manuscript (a summary of a larger work by the author, a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish cartographer) of the various colonial Spanish tribunals were copied and expanded by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas in his Historia general, Madrid, 1601. This manuscript postdates a copy in the Biblioteca national in Madrid (which was made after 1570), but predates the publication of Herrera's book.Image title taken from the verso of the map.
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1936, p. 10-13
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
The maps in this manuscript (a summary of a larger work by the author, a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish cartographer) of the various colonial Spanish tribunals were copied and expanded by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas in his Historia general, Madrid, 1601. This manuscript postdates a copy in the Biblioteca national in Madrid (which was made after 1570), but predates the publication of Herrera's book.Image title taken from the verso of the map.
Normalized date:
1575

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