Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Typo de la carta cosmographica de Gaspar Vopellio Medeburgense
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Accession Number:
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07817
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File Name:
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07817-1
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Call number:
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B570 G523c
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Map title:
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Typo de la carta cosmographica de Gaspar Vopellio Medeburgense
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Place of Publication:
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[Venice]
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Publisher:
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[Giordano Ziletti]
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Publication date:
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[1570]
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Map size height:
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28 cm.
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Map size width:
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40.5 cm.
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Item description:
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fold-out woodcut map; frontispiece
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Geographical description:
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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.
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Source author:
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Girava, Gerónimo, d. 1556
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Source title:
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[Dos libros de cosmographia] La cosmographia, y geographia ...
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Source place:
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En Venetia : Por Iordan Zileti y su compañero., MDLXX
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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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.
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Geographic Area:
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World
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Normalized date:
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1570
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Creator:
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Gerónimo Girava
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