Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Nautical chart of the Indian Ocean and the Chinese seas
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Barcode:
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3687800354650C
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Title:
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Nautical chart of the Indian Ocean and the Chinese seas
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Original Title:
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[Carte nautique de l'Océan Indien et des mers de Chine]
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Other Title:
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Die Groote Baÿ van Antongil
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Contributor:
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Gijsbertsz, Evert, d. 1625, cartographer
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Category:
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Sea Charts
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Type:
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Manuscripts
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Language:
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Dutch
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Language:
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Latin
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Language:
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Portuguese
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Create Year:
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1599
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Format:
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JPEG 2000, 15922 x 12007, 35MB
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Scale:
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Scale not given.
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Physical Map Dimension (cm):
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74 x 99 cm, on sheet 82 x 112 cm
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Note:
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This is a Dutch chart of the Indian Ocean and East Indies with Portuguese influence, easily perceived by the number of Portuguese flags and coats of arms and the Portuguese nomenclature. The charts extends from the east coast of Africa to Japan including Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Korea and Papua New Guinea. West of India the coast line is fairly accurate but on east the representation starts to be a little more distorted. The Gulf of Thailand is greatly exaggerated, the south coast of China is somewhat distorted and Korea is represented as an island instead of a Peninsula. However, the Philippines are already correct, the Island of Java is not enlarged as was customary, as was with Papua New Guinea, and Japan is in the Dourado-style. Macau is written on land on the east side of the Pearl River Estuary in red, normally used for important locations.
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Note:
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Inset 1: Die Groote Baÿ van Antongil. - Scale not given. - 16 x 14 cm.
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Note:
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Original is a manuscript chart on parchment, 74 x 100 cm.
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Note:
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Title from provenance library.
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The map is ornamented with flags, coats of arms and compass roses. There are 12 flags on the map, six with the cross of the Order of Christ and the other six with the coat of arms of Portugal. A big heraldic device of Portugal is inside a strapwork oval decoration in India. As for the compass roses there are five, all 32-point and with a fleur-de-lis indicating north, a cross on east point and colored green, red, blue and gold. The rhumb lines for the principal winds are black, half-winds are green and quarter-winds are red.
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There are three table of leagues on the map, two of them inside strapwork cartouches. The cartouche on the bottom right corner of the map is headed by a compass.
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Landmasses outlined in green with bigger islands outlined in green and yellow and smaller islands colored green and blue.
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Latitude line roughly in the middle of the chart in white, red and blue interchangeably.
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Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn in red.
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Toponyms in red and black.
Inset inside a green border with strapwork decorations and the date underneath.
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Note:
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Title of the inset, authorship and table of leagues in Dutch with Equator, Tropics and bigger landmasses in Latin and place names in Portuguese.
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Note:
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Macao in East Indies maps.
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Reference:
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Destombes, M. Cartes hollandaises : la cartographie de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1593-1743, 8
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Reference:
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Foncin, M. Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département des cartes et plans, 56
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Reference:
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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. 43
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Subject:
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Chart
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Geographic Area:
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Indian Ocean
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Geographic Area:
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East indies
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Geographic Area:
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Africa
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Geographic Area:
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Asia
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Geographic Area:
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Madagascar
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Geographic Area:
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India
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Geographic Area:
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Indonesia
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Geographic Area:
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Malaysia
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Geographic Area:
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Cambodia
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Thailand
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Geographic Area:
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Vietnam
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Geographic Area:
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Paracel Islands
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Geographic Area:
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China
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Geographic Area:
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Taiwan
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Geographic Area:
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Philippines
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Geographic Area:
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Korea
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Geographic Area:
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Japan
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Geographic Area:
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Papua New Guinea
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Provenance:
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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Provenance:
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https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40612453w
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Provenance Call No.:
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GE AA-569 (RES)
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MUST holding:
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https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991003031249705076
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