COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
31790
File Name:
31790-000
Call number:
File Ja789 /1
Map title:
Accurate copy of a map in parchment of Andrea Bianco a Venetian, of 1436 preserved in St. Mark's Library at Venice
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Published ... for F. Sastres
Publication date:
August 10th, 1789
Item description:
Engraved map, on vellum
Geographical description:
A copy of a portolan chart of Europe or the Iberian peninsula and northern Africa. Also include Atlantic islands such as the fictitious Antillia island. At lower right outside neat line, "S. Neele sculpt. 352 Strand."
Cartobibliographic notes:
The original ms. is discussed by W.H. Babcock in Legendary islands of the Atlantic (Am. Geogr. Soc. Res. Ser. no. 8).
Geographic Area:
Europe
Historical notes:
The legend of Antillia (or Antilia), also known as the Isle of Seven Cities, originated in an old Iberian legend about seven bishops from the eighth century who fled Muslim conquerors by fleeing westward to the island. Andrea Bianco included the island in his map of 1436, but it was omitted in his later map of 1448. The existence of the island on maps has been used for theories of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and some say may represent the American landmass.
Normalized date:
1789
LC bibliographic number:
b54176669
Creator:
Bianco, Andrea, fl. 1436-1458
Accurate copy of a map in parchment of Andrea Bianco a Venetian, of 1436 preserved in St. ...
