Detail View: Old Maps Collection: South West Atlantic Ocean

Barcode: 
4687820500969
Title: 
South West Atlantic Ocean
Original Title: 
[Océan Atlantique Sud-Ouest]
Other Title: 
Atlas of the Duchess de Berry
Contributor: 
Albernaz, João Teixeira, fl. 1602-1649, cartographer
Contributor: 
Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870, former owner
Contributor: 
Aunay, Jean-Charles de Mesgrigny d', comte, 1680-1763, former owner
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
Portuguese
Create Year: 
[ca. 1628]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 4760 × 3320, 25MB
Page No.: 
8
Scale: 
Scale indeterminable.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
27 x 39 cm, on sheet 32 x 44 cm
Note: 
This is an anonymous atlas under the assigned title 'Atlas nautique du monde'. It is attributed to João Albernaz Teixeira and dated around 1628 by Armando Cortesão after analyzing all the charts and comparing it with other works by the same author. The original atlas has two ex libris, one of Jean-Charles de Mesgrigny and the other of the Duchesse de Berry. The chart depicts southern Brazil with the Río de la Plata.
Note: 
Original is map from an atlas of 20 charts on parchment by João Teixeira Albernaz, 27 x 28 cm.
Note: 
Title from provenance library.
Note: 
There are five 32-point compass roses, the bigger one with a fleur de lis indicating north and the smaller ones with an arrow. All colored red, blue, green and gold. The rhumb lines for the principal winds are black, for the half winds green and the quarter winds red.
Note: 
Table of leagues inside red, blue and gold cartouche.
Note: 
Latitude line roughly in the middle in red and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Landmasses outlined in green with islands colored red, blue and gold.
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Equator line colored red.
Note: 
Map outlined in red border.
Note: 
Place names written both in black and red.
Reference: 
Cortesão, A. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica, vol. 4, p. 107-110
Reference: 
Foncin, M. Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département des cartes et plans, nº 82
Reference: 
Pflederer, R.L. 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. 56
Subject: 
World -- Maps
Subject: 
Brazil -- Maps
Geographic Area: 
World
Geographic Area: 
Atlantic Ocean
Geographic Area: 
Brazil
Relation Note: 
[8]
Pub Title: 
[Atlas nautique du monde]
Pub Author: 
Albernaz, João Teixeira, fl. 1602-1649
Pub Year: 
[ca. 1628]
Pub location: 
[S.l.]
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40780659n
Provenance Call No.: 
GE FF-14409 (RES)
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/reglfj/alma991002991849805076