Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Chart of the Pacific Ocean

Barcode: 
3687800354648J
Title: 
Chart of the Pacific Ocean
Original Title: 
[Carte de l'Océan Pacifique]
Other Title: 
Bengala.
Other Title: 
Arracão.
Other Title: 
Pegu.
Other Title: 
Chatigão.
Contributor: 
Albernaz, João Teixeira, I, fl. 1602-1649, cartographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
Portuguese
Create Year: 
[1649]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 11160 x 9360, 20MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
74 x 91 cm, on sheet 78 x 93 cm
Note: 
This is a sea chart with four insets on the bottom by cartographer, chart maker and cosmographer to the King of Portugal, João Teixeira Albernaz, from the long line of cartographers from the Teixeira family. The chart depicts the Pacific Ocean with insets of Bengal in India, two of Myanmar and another of Chittagong. East Asia is depicted already quite accurate with Japan in the Teixeira-type, made popular by Albernaz's father Luís Teixiera, and Korea as a Peninsula. However, the island of Hokkaido is still named 'Yezo', Papua New Guinea is greatly exaggerated, either because it was still unexplored or they thought it to be connected to Australia, and the Kamchatka Peninsula very outstretched. There is a Portuguese flag pointing to Macao.
Note: 
Inset 1: Bengala. - Scale not given. - 10 x 12 cm. -- Inset 2: Arracão. - Scale not given. - 10 x 12 cm. -- Inset 3: Pegu. - Scale not given. - 10 x 22 cm. -- Inset 4: Chatigão. - Scale not given. - 10 x 11 cm.
Note: 
Original is a manuscript map on parchment, 74 x 89 cm.
Note: 
There are three coats of arms on the map, one Portuguese on Malacca, one Spanish on the Philippines and another one with a golden lion on China. Four flags appear on the map, with one of them being Portuguese. There are eight full and two half 32-point compass roses on the map, the bigger one with a fleur-de-lis indicating north and the smaller ones with a red diamond indicating north; all colored red, blue, green and gold. Rhumb lines for the principal winds in black, half-winds in green and quarter-winds in red. On China there is a depiction of the Great Wall with an explanatory note.
Note: 
There are two table of leagues on the map, one colored gold and blue and the other gold and red.
Note: 
Relief shown pictorially.
Note: 
Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn in red.
Note: 
Landmasses outlined in green with bigger islands outlined in magenta and smaller islands colored red, blue and gold.
Note: 
Latitude line roughly in the middle of the map in red and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Toponyms both in red and black.
Note: 
Map and insets outlined in gold border.
Note: 
Macao in East Indies maps.
Reference: 
Cortesão, A. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica, vol. 4, p. 147-149
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, 68
Subject: 
Nautical Chart
Geographic Area: 
Southeast Asia
Geographic Area: 
China Sea
Geographic Area: 
Pacific Ocean
Geographic Area: 
Asia
Geographic Area: 
Malaysia
Geographic Area: 
Indonesia
Geographic Area: 
Thailand
Geographic Area: 
Cambodia
Geographic Area: 
Vietnam
Geographic Area: 
Paracel Islands
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
Philippines
Geographic Area: 
Borneo
Geographic Area: 
Papua New Guinea
Geographic Area: 
Korea
Geographic Area: 
Japan
Geographic Area: 
Taiwan
Geographic Area: 
Chittagong Division (Banglaldesh)
Geographic Area: 
Myanmar
Geographic Area: 
Arakan
Geographic Area: 
Bengal (India)
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb407817893
Provenance Call No.: 
GE SH 18 PF 177 DIV 2 P 1 RES
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