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Typus orbis terrarvm [cartographic material]: Cum privilegio. Franciscus Hogenbergus Sculpsit.

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Date:

[1570].

Reference:

R11981-462-0-E, Volume number: 13

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item # 13

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1570] Plate I State 2 (Copy 2)

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4152649

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

Typus orbis terrarvm
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Date(s):

[1570].

Place:

Antwerp:

Place of creation:

Belgium

Publisher:

s.n.,

Extent:

1 map : ill., hand col. ; 25 x 50 cm on sheet 40 x 53 cm.

Language of material:

Latin

Scope and content:

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The map copies much of its detail from Gerard Mercator's great map of 1569 and provides a clear picture of current geographical knowledge. Features include a vast "Terra Australis", the potato-shaped outline for South America, a relatively accurate North America and an almost circular Japan.
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Cartographer: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Engraver: Hogenberg, Franz, d. 1590?
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Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 : Cartographer, cosmographer and publisher, born and died in Antwerp. Set up as map colourist in 1547; travelled through Italy and France with Gerald Mercator. He was appointed Royal Geographer to King Philip II of Spain in 1575. Ortelius is best known for his monumental work Theatrum orbis Terrarum, the first uniformly sized and systematically collected set of maps by different mapmakers which is acknowledged as the first atlas.

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General note:

Illustrated with ships and sea monsters.Outer frame of map surrounded by clouds.
From: Abraham Ortelius's Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1570, plate 1
Pictorial relief.
Bottom of the map carries the following quote by Cicero " Qvid ei potest videri magnum in rebus humanis, cvi aeternitas omis, totiusque mundi nota sit magnitudo".
Copper plate engraving.
On verso text titled "Orbis terrarum (I)

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Shirley, Rodney, Entry 122, Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 3, Entry Ort1, Map 1, Phillips, Philip Lee, Volume 1, Entry 374, Map 1

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°)

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC27661

Exhibitions note:

Discovery and Mapping of Upper Canada: An exhibition held at the Canadiana Department, Royal Ontario Museum, May - December 1967, Canada on Maps 1564-1616: Stratford Festival Exhibition 1966.

Related material:

For other copies and states of this map see: H3/10000/[1570] Plate I State 1 (NMC 8125) ; A/10000/[1570](1584) Plate I State 2 (Copy 1) (NMC 104403) ; G1006 .T5 1570 .S5 1964 - fol. (AMICUS No. 26306098) ; G1006 .T5 1584 - fol. Vault (AMICUS No. 26306177)

Container note(s):

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13 : Old label was "10000 WORLD [1570]"

Varying form of title:

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TYPUS ORBIS TERRARUM (Abraham Ortelius 1570)

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]

Microfiche NMC27661

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 13

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: Expired
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Date modified:: 2024-06-12