Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Disc of 495 mm diameter

Barcode: 
36878003546108
Title: 
Disc of 495 mm diameter
Original Title: 
[Disque de 495 mm de diamètre]
Contributor: 
Homem, Diogo, ca. 1520-1576, cartographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
Portuguese
Language: 
Latin
Create Year: 
[ca. 1558]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 13793 × 9978, 19MB
Page No.: 
2
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
55 x 78 cm, on sheet 72 x 92 cm
Note: 
This sheet belongs to an atlas, or rather a group of unfinished 8 loose sheets, attributed to Diogo Homem; making it his work about which more has been written. Even not signed the work is clearly Homem's and is actually one which presents features not found in any other in his vast series of works. It is in fact the only work where he uses Portuguese and Latin, the former he never once used it again in any other of his works, even though it was his native language. In includes a large cosmographic wheel that bears the 12 zodiac signs, solar circle and novilunar table.
Note: 
Original is a manuscript sheet on vellum from an Atlas by Diogo Homem, 61 x 83 cm.
Note: 
Title from provenance library.
Note: 
On the center there is an uncolored 16-point compass rose.
Note: 
Maps outlined in fourfold fillet.
Reference: 
Cortesão, A. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica, vol. 2, pp. 49-51
Reference: 
Foncin, M. Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département des cartes et plans, 36
Reference: 
Pflederer, R. Census of Portolan Charts & Atlases: as reported and listed by the noted scholars of the genre in their works ranging from 1897 to 2008, p. 50
Subject: 
Calendar
Subject: 
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Geographic Area: 
Zodiac
Relation Note: 
[2]
Pub Title: 
[Atlas nautique portugais].
Pub Author: 
Homem, Diogo, ca. 1520-1576.
Pub Year: 
[ca. 1558]
Pub location: 
[S.l.]
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40611727x
Provenance Call No.: 
GE C-5086 (1 RES)
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/reglfj/alma991003024449805076