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Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditonem exactissime depticta 1522, L.F. [cartographic material]

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Item

Date:

1522.

Reference:

R11981-444-9-E, Volume number: 3

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item #3

Local class no.:

H3/10000/1522

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3983578

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditonem exactissime depticta 1522, L.F.
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Date(s):

1522.

Place:

Strassburg:

Place of creation:

France

Extent:

1 map : woodcut, hand col. ; 29 x 45 cm on sheet 40 x 45 cm.

Language of material:

Latin

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This bold woodcut by Laurent Fries combines both outmoded geographical concepts with the latest geographical discoveries, and is one of the earliest maps to show the name "America". Aware of the New World discoveries, Fries has expanded the old Ptolemaic worldview to incorporate these "western lands". Despite this, much of the world is still crudely depicted. Madagascar is wildly displaced, the Indian peninsula and Ceylon ("Taprobana") are almost unrecognisable and England and Scotland are shown as separate islands. The outer border of the map, depicting banners naming the winds linked by coiled ropes, give the map its distinctive decorative appeal.

Provenance:

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Fries, Lorenz, ca. 1490-1531
Additional name(s):

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Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Cartographer: Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?
Biography/Administrative history:

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Fries, Lorenz, ca. 1490-1531 : Physician, astrologer and geographer from Colmar, Alsace. Studied medicine at several European universities, and worked in Strasbourg ca. 1519-1527. Produced a number of scientific instruments and revived a method of projectiion recorded by an Andalusian astronomer. Reworked most of the maps of Martin Waldseemuller. Worked with Peter Apain on the preparation of Tipus orbis univesalis , 1520 (based on Waldseemuller's world map of 1507, published in J. Camers's Solini Enerrationes, Vienna 1520, also in Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis, Basle 1522) ; The major project that Fries and Gruninger worked on was a new edition of the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, which was published by Johann Koberger in 1522. Here again, Fries evidently edited the maps, in most cases simply producing a reduction of the equivalent map from the 1513 edition of the Geographie Opus Novissima, printed by Johann Schott. Fries also prepare three new maps for the Geographie: maps of South-East Asia and the East Indies, China and the World, but the geography of these derives from Waldseemuller's world map of 1507. (the maps were re-used in versions edited by W. Pirkheimer, published Strasbourg, J. Gruninger, Nuremberg, J. Koberger 1525, Lyons, M & G Trechsel 1535, Lyons, G. Trechsel 1541 etc.).

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General note:

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Woodcut engraving.
Map has the added decorative banner reading Tabu. Totius Orbis across the top.
Includes a decorative rope border where twenty-four winds are named. The rhumb lines suggest that it was to be used as a navigation chart and is often referred to as the "Admiral"s map.
This is the first of the two modern world maps in Fries' edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia'; however, this is of his own rendering and bears his initials 'L.F.' after the title.
The map is a reworking of Waldseemuller's famous 1513 world map with the notable
addition of the name America in the New World. It was first published in Fries'
Ptolemaic geography of 1522, with this second edition appearing in 1525.
In its crude yet stunning outline of the world, Fries' map follows the
Waldseemuller, adding even further distortions. England and Scotland have reverted
to separate islands, while India has become a confusing double-peninsula. Shirley
also notes that Fries has added a western coastline to South America, more by intuition
than by factual report.
From: Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Mathematico[rum] principis. opus Geographie nouiter castigatu[m] & emaculatu[m] additio[n]ibus. raris et inuisis. necnon cu[m] tabularum in dorso iucunda explanatione. Registro quoq[ue] totius operis. tam Geographico. q[uam] etia[m] historiali. facillimu[m] introitu[m] prebe[n]ti... / Claudius Ptolemaeus, 1522, [no 50]
Pictoral relief.

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Citation/reference note:

Shirley, Entry 48., Layng, Entry 85., Phillips, Entry 361, no [50]

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate.

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC 21088.

Exhibitions note:

National Map Collection 1983 Antique Map Calendar., Discovery and Mapping of Upper Canada: An exhibition held at the Canadiana Department, Royal Ontario Museum, May - December 1967., Treasures of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada : An exhibition of 100 original maps, atlases, globes and architectural plans, 1490-1982, held at the Public Archives of Canada 17 August 1982 to 9 January 1983.

Related material:

See also G1005 1535 fol. Vault.( NMC 15727)

Subject heading:

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World - Maps - Early works to 1600

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist.

Microfiche [R11981] NMC21088

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981]

[Consultation 90 Open]

3 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

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