COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
17000
File Name:
17000-017
Call number:
Codex Sp 7 / 1-SIZE
Map title:
Descripcion delas Yndias del Poniente
Place of Publication:
Madrid?
Publication date:
1575
Map size height:
20.9 cm
Map size width:
28.8 cm (both pages)
Item description:
manuscript map
Geographical description:
Map of Southeast Asia including the coast of China, Siam, islands of Japan, Borneo, New Guinea, the Philippines, etc.
Source author:
Lopez de Velasco, Juan
Source title:
Demarcacion y diuision de las Yndias
Source place:
[Madrid? 1575?]
Cartobibliographic notes:
The maps in this manuscript (a summary of a larger work by the author, a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish cartographer) of the various colonial Spanish tribunals were copied and expanded by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas in his Historia general, Madrid, 1601. This manuscript postdates a copy in the Biblioteca national in Madrid (which was made after 1570), but predates the publication of Herrera's book.Image title taken from the verso of the map.
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1936, p. 10-13
Geographic Area:
Southeast Asia
Historical notes:
The maps in this manuscript (a summary of a larger work by the author, a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish cartographer) of the various colonial Spanish tribunals were copied and expanded by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas in his Historia general, Madrid, 1601. This manuscript postdates a copy in the Biblioteca national in Madrid (which was made after 1570), but predates the publication of Herrera's book.Image title taken from the verso of the map.
Normalized date:
1575
Descripcion delas Yndias del Poniente
