Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Northwest Indian Ocean

Barcode: 
4687820500983
Title: 
Northwest Indian Ocean
Original Title: 
[Océan Indien Nord-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, 4757 x 3312, 26MB
Page No.: 
12
Scale: 
Scale indeterminable.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
27 x 39 cm, on sheet 30 x 42 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. Depicts the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and coasts of India.
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 four full and one half 32-point compass roses, the two bigger ones with a fleur de lis indicating north. 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 lines on the left side in red and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Landmasses outlined in green with bigger islands in magenta. Small islands colored red, blue and gold.
Note: 
Line of the Tropic of Cancer 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
Geographic Area: 
World
Geographic Area: 
Red Sea
Geographic Area: 
Persian Gulf
Geographic Area: 
India
Geographic Area: 
Cambodia
Geographic Area: 
Africa
Geographic Area: 
Sri Lanka
Geographic Area: 
Ceylon
Relation Note: 
[12]
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