Detail View: Old Maps Collection: [Chart of the Sea of Canton to Cambodia and the Philippines]

Barcode: 
3687800354567J
Title: 
[Chart of the Sea of Canton to Cambodia and the Philippines]
Original Title: 
[Carte des mers de Canton au Cambodge et aux Philippines]
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
French
Language: 
Portuguese
Create Year: 
[16--]-[17--]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 17324 x 14264, 411.2MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
89 x 108 cm, on sheet 94 x 111 cm
Note: 
This nautical chart depicts the South China Sea with the coasts of Vietnam and China, including the Island of Hainan, the Paracel Islands, the Philippines and a small south tip of Taiwan. Made most likely as navigational aid it displays some soundings with place names along the coast lines with inland mostly blank. The Paracel bank is in the Vaz Dourado type and, along with other shoals and sand banks, is colored yellow. It is already accompanied by the triangular set on its northeast side with the designation 'Croix de S.t Anthoine ou Les Lunettes".
Note: 
Original is a manuscript map on parchment 89 x 108 cm.
Note: 
Title from provenance library.
Note: 
There is a 32-point compass rose on the map with a fleur-de-lis indicating north. The rhumb lines for the principal winds in bold lines, the half-winds in dashed lines and the quarter-winds in simple lines.
Note: 
Relief shown pictorially.
Note: 
Shoals and sand banks colored yellow.
Note: 
Map with graticule.
Note: 
Latitude line on left border of the map and longitude line in bottom border of the map, both in black and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Place names both in French and Portuguese.
Reference: 
Foncin, M. Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département des cartes et plans, p. 297
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. 69
Subject: 
Nautical charts
Geographic Area: 
South China Sea
Geographic Area: 
Cambodia
Geographic Area: 
Philippines
Geographic Area: 
Vietnam
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
Hainan Island (China)
Geographic Area: 
Taiwan
Geographic Area: 
Paracel Islands
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40781907g
Provenance Call No.: 
GE SH 18 PF 181 P 21 RES
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991003009649705076