Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Caribbean Sea and South Atlantic Ocean
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Barcode:
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3687800354617F
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Title:
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Caribbean Sea and South Atlantic Ocean
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Original Title:
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[Mer des Antilles et Océan Atlantique Sud]
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Contributor:
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Homem, Diogo, ca. 1520-1576, 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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Portuguese
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Language:
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Latin
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Create Year:
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[ca. 1558]
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Format:
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JPEG 10029 × 13548, 19MB
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Page No.:
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7
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Scale:
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Scale not given.
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Physical Map Dimension (cm):
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77 x 54 cm, on sheet 92 x 72 cm
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Note:
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These 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. This is the most complete chart of the atlas and depicts the East Pacific Ocean with the west coast of South America and South of Cuba with part of the Caribbean Sea.
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Note:
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Original is a manuscript sheet on vellum from an Atlas by Diogo Homem, 83 x 60 cm.
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Note:
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Title from provenance library.
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Note:
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There are four 32-point compasses roses on the chart, three with a fleur-de-lis indicating north and the other with a an arrow indicating north. The rhumb lines for the principal winds are in black, the half-winds in green and the quarter-winds in red. There is an unfinished cartouche intended for the table of leagues and four coats of arms were left blank.
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Note:
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Relief shown pictorially.
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Note:
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Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn in red line and Equator in gold line.
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Note:
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Place names in red and black.
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Note:
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The four borders of the map with latitude and longitude lines in red, blue, green and gold interchangeably.
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Note:
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Map in Portuguese and Latin.
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Note:
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Map outlined in border gold and blue.
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Reference:
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Cortesão, A. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica, vol. 2, pp. 49-51
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Reference:
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Foncin, M. Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département des cartes et plans, 36
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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. 50
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Subject:
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Atlas
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Geographic Area:
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East Pacific Ocean
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Geographic Area:
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South America
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Geographic Area:
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Central America
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Geographic Area:
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Cuba
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Geographic Area:
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Peru
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Geographic Area:
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Chile
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Relation Note:
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[7]
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Pub Title:
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[Atlas nautique portugais].
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Pub Author:
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Homem, Diogo, ca. 1520-1576.
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Pub Year:
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[ca. 1558]
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Pub location:
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[S.l.]
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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/cb40611727x
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Provenance Call No.:
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GE C-5086 (1 RES)
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MUST holding:
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https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/reglfj/alma991003025449605076
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