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Charta Cosmographica, cvm ventorvm propria natvra et operatione. [cartographic material]

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Item

Date:

ca. 1544-1553].

Reference:

R11981-446-2-E, Volume number: 7

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item #7

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1544] [1545]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3984408

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

Charta Cosmographica, cvm ventorvm propria natvra et operatione.
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Date(s):

ca. 1544-1553].

Place:

[Antwerp:

Place of creation:

Netherlands

Extent:

1 map : ill., woodblock, hand col. ; 19 x 28 cm on sheet 25 x 32 cm.

Language of material:

Latin

Scope and content:

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This scarce early map is based on the now lost world map of Gemma Frisius [1540]. The world is presented in a cordiform projection on a cloud background filled with mythical figures and windheads. One of the deities sports the design of the Holy Roman Emperor's double eagle on his breastplate and the three cadaverous windheads at bottom represent the plague-carrying winds of the south. The continents are broadly based on Mercator's globe gores of 1541 but North America is shown as a long slender landmass labeled Baccalearium in reference to the cod fishing region. There are few geographical features other than the prominent twin lake sources of the Nile in Africa. The heart-shaped border of the map contains signs of the zodiac.

Provenance:

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Apianus, Petrus, 1495-1552

Biography/Administrative history:

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Apianus, Petrus, 1495-1552 : Born in Leising, Saxony and died at Ingolstadt. Apianus was a geographer and astronomer Royal at Ingolstadt. In 1528 he set up a printing press with his brothers Georg and Martin. Famous for his woodcut world maps on truncated cordiform projection.

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General note:

Includes illustrations of ships and sea monsters, windheads and mythical figures.
"I" appears in the lower right margin
Rodney Shirley's The Mapping of the World (1983), entry 82 indicates this copy was probably printed in 1544, 1545, 1548. 1550, 1551 or 1553 from the first woodblock cut for this map. This is based on the fact that the word "Europa" is at an angle and the outline for Britain lacks the names "Anglia and Scotia".
Pictorial relief.

Note on the state of conservation:

On verso: ahesive tape applied along the upper margin of the map.

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Shirley, Entry 82, Layng, Entry 278

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC 27658

Exhibitions note:

This map was part of an exhibition held at The Royal Ontario Museum, March 1954 entitled "The Discovery & Mapping of the Great Lakes 'Sweet Water' 1522-1703 showcasing MacDonald's Collection.

Date of issue:

Date of issue base on the date range for the first woodblock as appears in Shirley, entry 82.

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] NMC27658

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981]

[Consultation 90 Open]

7 Item no. assigned by LAC 7

[Consultation 90 Open]

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