COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
13-237
File Name:
13-237-000
Call number:
Cabinet G751 /1
Map title:
Provincia Quitensis Societatis Iesu in America topographice exhibita nec non A.R.P. Ignatio Vicecomiti in comitiis generalibus A. 1751 in praepositum generalem ejusdem societatis electo A.P.P. Carolo Brentano, et Nicolao de la Torre, praefatae provinciae Quitensis procuratoribus humillime dicata postquem iusdem comitis ipsi interfuissent
Place of Publication:
Rome
Publisher:
Ioa. Petroschi caracteres indicit
Publication date:
1751
Map size height:
63 cm.
Map size width:
90 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map
Geographical description:
Map of the Jesuit province of Quitensis, or the Isthmus of Panama, the Caribbean islands from Dominica southward, modern day Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, part of Brazil, and Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru to just south of Lima outlined in red. Prime meridian: possibly Ferro. Includes portrait of Brentano [?] in cartouche. Map is comprised of two sheets joined together. Includes an explanation of symbols used at bottom of map and a list of Collegia in the province printed at the bottom left hand side of map. Signed on lower left hand side of map: Iulius Caesar Cigni delineavit. Signed on middle lower portion of map: Dominicus Cigni sculpsit. Barscale given at bottom center of map but no unit of measurement is given; scale estimated by measurement of degree of latitude. Relief given pictorially
Cartobibliographic notes:
Map created by Carolo Brentano after his return from the mission in the Province of Quito, engraved by Guilio Cesare Cigni, and printed by Giovanni Petroschi in Rome in 1751. See Backer-Sommervogel.
References:
Phillips 2779, no. 22; Backer-Sommervogel|cII: col. 114, no. 1
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
The Jesuit province of Quito included all of modern day Ecuador, northern Peru, Colombia, part of Venezuela, and the Pacific coast of Panama.
Scale 1:
ca. 5,530,00
Normalized date:
1751
LC bibliographic number:
b65920776
Creator:
Brentano, Carolo, 1674-approximately 1751
Creator:
Cigni, Julio Cesare
Creator:
Cigni, Dominicus
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