Detail View: Old Maps Collection: [East Indies, including a large "Java Maior" (Australia?) and coast of Asia]

Barcode: 
4687820500914
Title: 
[East Indies, including a large "Java Maior" (Australia?) and coast of Asia]
Contributor: 
Oliva, Bartolomeo, 1538-1588, cartographer
Contributor: 
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
Spanish
Create Year: 
[1585]-[1599]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 6928 × 4992, 18.6MB
Page No.: 
14
Scale: 
Scale indeterminable.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
45 x 32 cm, on sheet 51 x 37 cm
Note: 
Bartolomeo Oliva was a cartographer that founded the family dynasty of Portolan cartographer from the island of Maiorca, Spain. The family first worked in Maiorca and later moved to Messina, Naples, and Marseille. They kept the Majorcan cartographic tradition going, while also introducing Italian and oriental influences. The Portolan in which this map is included was also most probably made in Maiorca as nomenclature is mainly in Spanish. This particular chart is of the East Indies from Bengala extending to what seems to be Korea, strangely correctly depicted as a Peninsula which was not common at the time being almost always an island. The coast lines of Sumatra and Malacca are fairly accurate but the Gulf of Tonkin is fairly exaggerated and China is not even identified, although the outlines of the Pearl River are already present. The Philippines are incomplete and Taiwan is missing. Java is enlarged and with the toponym 'Java Maior' with the Sonda Islands and Timor denominated as 'Java Menor' a common mistake on 16th century charts.
Note: 
Original is a colored manuscript map in parchment from a Portolan Atlas, 22 x 33 cm.
Note: 
Title from provenance library.
Note: 
There are the principal directions and with symbols for the 4 winds marked at the edges of the chart. An arrow indicating north, a cross on the east point, and a P (Ponente) and O (Ostro) for West and South respectively after the Mariner's Windrose. Rhumb line for the principal winds in black, half-winds in green and quarter-winds in red.
Note: 
Table of leagues vertical on the left side of the map.
Note: 
Relief shown pictorially.
Note: 
Landmasses outlined in green, yellow and magenta with small islands colored, green, grey, red and yellow.
Note: 
Tropic of Cancer and Equator line in yellow.
Note: 
Place names in red with names of the bigger landmasses in black.
Note: 
Map outlined in red border.
Reference: 
Harrisse, H., Découverte et évolution cartographique de Terre-Neuve et des pays circonvoisins 1497-1501-1769, p. 513
Reference: 
De Ricci, S. with the assistance of W. H. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 42
Reference: 
Wagner, H.R. The Portolan Atlases of American Interest in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in Essays offered to Herbert Putnam, p. 498-509
Reference: 
Public Archives. Sixteenth-Century Maps Relating to Canada; a check-list and bibliography, p. 223, n. 827
Subject: 
Asia -- Maps
Geographic Area: 
East Indies
Geographic Area: 
India
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
Sumatra (Indonesia)
Geographic Area: 
Malacca (Malacca, Malaysia)
Geographic Area: 
Vietnam
Geographic Area: 
Cambodia
Geographic Area: 
Borneo
Geographic Area: 
Korea
Geographic Area: 
Philippines
Geographic Area: 
Java (Indonesia)
Geographic Area: 
Hainan Sheng (China)
Geographic Area: 
Thailand
Geographic Area: 
Laos
Geographic Area: 
Singapore
Geographic Area: 
Sonda Islands
Geographic Area: 
Timor Island
Relation Note: 
[ff. 14]
Pub Title: 
[Portolan atlas, Spanish]. [Majorca], [1585-1599].
Pub Author: 
Oliva, Bartolomeo, 1538-1588
Pub Year: 
[1585]-[1599]
Pub location: 
[Majorca]
Provenance: 
Huntington Library Collection
Provenance: 
https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862006
Provenance Call No.: 
mssHM 32
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991002993749805076