Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Handwritten map of the coasts of the province of Canton

Barcode: 
3687800317484G
Title: 
Handwritten map of the coasts of the province of Canton
Original Title: 
[Carte manuscrite des cĂ´tes de la province de Kanton]
Contributor: 
Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, ca. 1632-1712, cartographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
[1700]-[1712]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 10497 x 7311, 46.1MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
60 x 88 cm, on sheet 82 x 111 cm
Note: 
This chart extends from Leizhou Peninsula to Dongshan County centered on the mouth of the Pearl River, Macau and Hong Kong. Xiangshan is depicted as an island but it is named 'Maccao' with the city, marked with an early Portuguese flag, correctly marked on the southeast peninsula. Guangzhou (Kanton) is marked up north and other important landmarks are present on the chart, as well as some details to aid in navigation. The position of some of the islands is still very lacking and not close to reality, specially if compared to Portuguese charts of the same period. However, it proves the interest the French had the in the area and their efforts to map it.
Note: 
Original is a manuscript map, 57 x 85 cm.
Note: 
Title from provenance library.
Note: 
On the upper left corner of the map: "Jaillot fecit".
Note: 
There is a 4-point compass rose in the middle of the map with a fleur-de-lis indicating north and a cross on the east point.
Note: 
Relief shown pictorially.
Note: 
Map with graticule.
Note: 
The four borders of the map with latitude and longitude lines.
Note: 
Landmasses outlined in grey.
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Map outlined in double fillet colored black.
Note: 
Macao in China maps.
Note: 
Macao and its surroundings.
Geographic Area: 
Guangdong Sheng (China)
Geographic Area: 
Macao (China)
Geographic Area: 
Hainan Island (China)
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40666236r
Provenance Call No.: 
GE DD-2987 (7163 B)
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991000811189705076