Detail View: JCB Map Collection: [Map of the world]
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Accession Number:
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08641
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File Name:
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08641-2
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Call number:
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Codex Z 4
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Map title:
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[Map of the world]
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Place of Publication:
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[Genoa]
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Publication date:
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[ca. 1565]
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Map size height:
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24.8 cm.
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Map size width:
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36.8 cm.
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Item description:
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manuscript map, colored, leaf [27]
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Geographical description:
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Map of the world. The western boundaries of North America are blank and South America is largely blank. Cartographic elements include windroses, rhumb lines, scale, some topographical details, and sea banks or shoals. Includes representation of Tenochtitlán or Mexico City.
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Source author:
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Gisolfo, Marco Francesco
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Source title:
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[Portolan atlas]
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Source place:
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[Genoa]
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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Attributed to Gisolfo, a pupil of Battista Agnese; only eight manuscripts attributed to Gisolfo are known, including three which were owned by members of the Medici family.
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References:
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John Carter Brown, Annual Report, 1913, p. 20
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Geographic Area:
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World
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Normalized date:
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1565
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