COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-7407
File Name:
C-7407-000
Call number:
Cabinet Gg59 PlP
Map title:
Haec pars Peruvianae, regiones Chicam & Chile[nsem] complectitur, & Regionem Patagonum
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
[Cornelis Claesz]
Publication date:
[1592-1594]
Map size height:
39 cm.
Map size width:
55 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map
Geographical description:
Map of Peru. Inset at lower right, in strapwork frame: [South America from the Strait of Magellan to the Equator]. "Joannes à Doetechum fecit." at bottom of scale cartouche (lower right). Boldest lettering is "PERUVIANAE PARS," across S. America on map; above title from letterpress paste-on (16 lines in all) in lower right corner on a blank cartouche within the area of the inset. In a blank cartouche to upper left is a similar typographic paste-on, referring to Thomas Cavendish's passage of the Strait of Magellan, reached by him "Anno 1585, [recte, 1587] 6. Ianuarij die" and his finding of islands discovered by Francis Drake and of the famine-stricken remnants of colonies founded by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa in the Strait. It is noted, of Cavenish, that "fretum hoc Magellanicum attigit et in praesentem formam delineavit." The basic cartography resembles that in the map of Sancho Gutiérrez (1551) and of Bartholomeu Lasso (ca. 1590), but reveals later influences especially of Cavendish's voyage. At least 4 names in English appear in southern Patagonia; these are common to what is probably Cavendish's manuscript chart of 1588, now in the Algemeene Rijksarchief, The Hague (see Wieder, Monumenta I, no. 5) and to the terrestrial globe of Emery Molyneaux (1592/1603), preserved in the Middle Temple, London. Decorative details include a figure, apparently of a giant sloth, and representations of Patagonian giants. Contains three scales: Spanish leagues, and Italian and German miles.
References:
F.C. Wieder, "Toelichting bij de Kaart van Plancius" (and reprod.) in Linschoten-Vereeniging, Werken 9 (1915) p. 162-176; ibid., in Linschoten-Vereeniging, Werken 22 (1924), p. 25-29; J. Keuning, Petrus Plancius (1946), p. 85; Cortesão, Portugallicae Monumenta Cartographica 3/98, pl. 382a; Helen Wallis, in Merchants and scholars, ed. John Parker, (1965), p. 218, n. 37
Geographic Area:
South America
Normalized date:
1592
LC bibliographic number:
b54106060
Creator:
Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622
Haec pars Peruvianae, regiones Chicam & Chile[nsem] complectitur, & Regionem Patagonum
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