Detail View: Old Maps Collection: A map of the East Indies and surrounding islands

Barcode: 
3687800354407C
Title: 
A map of the East Indies and surrounding islands
Original Title: 
Indiae orientalis, insvlarvmque adiacientivm typvs
Other Title: 
Indiae orientalis, insularumque adjacientium typus
Contributor: 
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, author
Contributor: 
Plantijnsche Drukkerij, printer
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Latin
Language: 
Portuguese
Language: 
Spanish
Create Year: 
1612
Page No.: 
389
Scale: 
[1:22,000,000].
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
35 x 49 cm, on sheet 60 x 85 cm
Note: 
Abraham Ortelius published in 1570 in Antwerp the reputed first modern atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. It contains originally 53 maps later updated continuously by Ortelius in 'Additamenti' until his death in 1598. By 1612 the atlas had already 31 editions in many languages. This map of Southeast Asia was included in every edition of the atlas since 1570 until 1612. In the map are depicted India, China, the Bay of Bengal, the Himalaya Mountains, the Canton River, Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and New Guinea including a small section of the west coast of California on the right top corner. It is the first printed map to identify Taiwan, still named 'Fermosa'. Sumatra and Java are heavily oversize, the Philippines are incomplete and without the Northern island of Luzon and Korea is still missing. The map is focused on the islands that were the obsession of Europe, the so-called 'Spice Islands' that were rich in resources the Europeans wanted to trade. The note on the banderole right above New Guinea states exactly this, mentioning that the famous Maluku islands are next to Gilolo, exporting all over the world a great abundance of fragrant spices. On New Guinea -here named 'Nova Guinea'- the notes seem to clarify that it is called Piccinaculusland by Andreas Corsalis and whether this is an island or part of the South Land it is uncertain. This is an early map depicting the world and East Asia before the Portuguese established the permanent settlement in Macao.
Note: 
Original is a copperplate printed map water colored by hand. This map is from the 1612 Spanish edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' by Abraham Ortelius.
Note: 
Coat of arms of Portugal on Persia on the left upper corner of the map. On the sea there are two European vessels, one of them being attacked by two giant sea monsters. There are also two mermaids beautifying themselves taken from the splendid map of America of Diego GutiƩrrez of 1562.
Note: 
Title inside a strap work cartouche on the left bottom corner of the map.
Note: 
The four borders of the map labelled with North, South, East and West in Latin Septentrio (Septentriones), Meridies, Oriens and Occidens respectively.
Note: 
Latitude and longitude lines framing the map in black and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Land masses outlined in different colors. Islands colored green, yellow and magenta.
Note: 
Relief is shown pictorially.
Note: 
Map with roped border.
Note: 
Macao in Asia Maps.
Note: 
Title, privilege, legends, land and water masses in Latin with place names in Latin, Spanish and Portuguese.
Reference: 
Suarez, T. Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, p. [164]-169
Reference: 
Karrow, R.W. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps, 1/68
Reference: 
Durand. F. Maps of Malaya and Borneo, 11
Reference: 
Nordenskiƶld, A.E. Periplus, fig. 86, p. 164-170
Reference: 
Cartographica Neerlandica http://www.orteliusmaps.com/book/ort166.html
Subject: 
Atlas
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
India
Geographic Area: 
Malaysia
Geographic Area: 
Sumatra (Indonesia)
Geographic Area: 
Vietnam
Geographic Area: 
Cambodia
Geographic Area: 
Myanmar
Geographic Area: 
Thailand
Geographic Area: 
Borneo
Geographic Area: 
Java (Indonesia)
Geographic Area: 
Japan
Geographic Area: 
Philippines
Geographic Area: 
Timor Island
Geographic Area: 
Papua New Guinea
Geographic Area: 
Pacific Ocean
Relation Note: 
[389]
Pub Title: 
Theatro D'el Orbe de la Tierra
Pub Author: 
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Pub Year: 
1612
Pub location: 
Anveres
Provenance: 
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Provenance: 
http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/catbnp/280111
Provenance Call No.: 
C.A. 32 A.
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