COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
07817
File Name:
07817-1
Call number:
B570 G523c
Map title:
Typo de la carta cosmographica de Gaspar Vopellio Medeburgense
Place of Publication:
[Venice]
Publisher:
[Giordano Ziletti]
Publication date:
[1570]
Map size height:
28 cm.
Map size width:
40.5 cm.
Item description:
fold-out woodcut map; frontispiece
Geographical description:
Cordiform world map including North and South America. Balboa's discovery of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 is noted, and Antarctica (or the southern continent) is noted as being sighted in 1499. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude (based on Ferro meridian). Decorative elements include windheads, including southern windheads represented as skulls, men holding a globe and armillary sphere, and celestial spheres.
Source author:
Girava, Gerónimo, d. 1556
Source title:
[Dos libros de cosmographia] La cosmographia, y geographia ...
Source place:
En Venetia : Por Iordan Zileti y su compañero., MDLXX
Cartobibliographic notes:
Girava, cosmographer to the Emperor Charles V, created this map from a large world map of Caspar Vopell. Vopell's maps--supposedly of 1545, 1549, and 1552--are no longer extant, although some derivatives by Vavassore and Van den Putte of the 12-sheet map have survived.
Geographic Area:
World
Normalized date:
1570
Creator:
Gerónimo Girava
Typo de la carta cosmographica de Gaspar Vopellio Medeburgense
