Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Typo de la carta cosmographica de Gaspar Vopellio Medeburgense
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Accession Number:
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31891
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File Name:
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31891-002
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Call number:
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B570 G523c copy 2
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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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Por Iordan Zileti y su compañero
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Publication date:
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MDLXX.
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Map size height:
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35 cm.
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Map size width:
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44 cm.
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Item description:
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title page
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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 and astrological spheres.
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Source author:
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Girava, Gerónimo, -1556
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Source title:
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La cosmographia, y geographia del s. Hieronimo Girava Tarragones. en la qual se contiene la descripcion de todo el mundo, y de sus partes, y particularmente de las Yndias, y tierra nueua. Islas de Espana, y de las otras partes del mundo con la nauegacion, longitud, latitud grandeza, y circuito de todas ellas. Con tablas, e instrumentos, que dan à entender la distancia de las prouincias, y puertos, y la altura del polo, ansi de dia, como de noche
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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 mapssupposedly of 1545, 1549, and 1552are no longer extant, although some derivatives by Vavassore and Van den Putte of the 12-sheet map have survived. Originally published as: Dos libros de cosmographia, Milan, 1556. Consists of same sheets as Milan, 1556 edition except for p. [1-8], 1st count, and the omission of the errata leaf which has been cut away.
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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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LC bibliographic number:
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b22201178
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Creator:
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Girava, Gerónimo, d. 1556
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