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Tabula terre nove. [cartographic material]

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Item

Date:

1513].

Reference:

R11981-537-5-E, Volume number: 89

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection # 89

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1513]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4141746

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

America: Western Hemisphere

Tabula terre nove.
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Date(s):

1513].

Place:

[S.l.:

Place of creation:

Germany

Publisher:

s.n.,

Extent:

1 map : woodcut, b. & w. : 37 x 42 cm on sheet 41 x 48 cm.

Language of material:

Latin

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This is the first printed map specifically devoted to the New World to appear in an atlas. The map follows the Atlantic seaboard, showing a continuous coastline stretching from 35° south latitude, where the mouth of the Rio de la Plata lies, to the latitude of the St. Lawrence River in North America. The map forms what appears to be a complete Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Seaboard. South America is labelled Terra Incognita, and one can see the islands of Cuba (Isabella), Hispaniola (Spagnolla), Jamaica (Iamaiqua), the Virgin Islands (La Onze Mil Virgenes) and Puerto Rico (Borinquen) on what the cartographer calls Oceanus Occidentalis, the Western Ocean. An inscription indicates that the land and the islands on the map were discovered by Christopher Columbus by order of the King of Castille.
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Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Cartographer: Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?
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General note:

For more information on this map see: Skelton, R.A.: Introduction to Claudius Ptolemaeus Geographia, Strassburg, 1513. Published by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd. Amsterdam MCMLXVI.
In: Ptolemy: Geographia, Strassburg, 1513. This map is sometimes called the "Admiral's Map" ascribed to Columbus himself. (Skelton: Introduction ... 513, front flap). Though the map is not signed, Skelton: after surveying the scattered and sometimes contradictory evidence sees no serious reason to doubt that Martin Waldsemüller designed it. (Skelton: Introduction ...1513, p. XX.) This map appeared also in: Ptolemy: Geographia, Strassburg, 1520.
From: Ptolemaevs avctvs restitvtvs emacvlatvs cvm tabvlis veteribvs ac novis Geographia [Strasbourg] : Ioannes Scotus, Argentorati literis exc[a]epit, 1520., map no [30]

Note on the state of conservation:

On verso adhesive tape along top margin.

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Burden, Entry 3, Seymour I. Schwartz & Ralph E. Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America (New York, 1980), pp. 31-34., Mickwitz and Miekkavaara, v. 2, Entry 205, map no [29], Layng, Entry 38., Sabin, Entry 66478, Phillips, Entry 359, map no [29], Phillips, Entry 360, map no [30]

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate (N 55°--S 35°)

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC27696 (H3)

Exhibitions note:

Up North: The Discovery and Mapping of the Canadian Arctic, 1511-1944 : An Exhibtion held at The Royal Ontario Museum April 1958.

Related material:

For other copies and or editions see: G1005 1520 - fol. Vault (AMICUS No. 26306088) map no [30] ; G 1005 1513 .S5 1966 - fol. (AMICUS 26306082) ; Mikan 4153225 (NMC 10027)

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89 : Container label was "10000 WORLD [1513]".

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Admiral's map [cartographic material] / by Martin Waldseemüller
Subject heading:

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World - Maps - Early works to 1600

North America Early works to 1600

South America Early works to 1600

Atlantic Ocean - Maps - Early works to 1600

Western hemisphere - 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 version is open.

Microfiche

[Consultation 90 Open]

NMC15731;

[Consultation 90 Open]

NMC27696;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 89

[Consultation 90 Open]

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