cartographic map cartographic image be Antwerp Christophe Plantin 1579 monographic lat

cartographic material

map

map

1 map : copperplate engraving ; 37 x 48 cm.

unmediated

sheet

Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and central figure at the pinnacle of Dutch cartographic science during the Age of Discovery. He was famously the first to publish a printed collection of maps with the title of atlas. This map depicts the entire continent of Asia. The Red Sea is given the alternative name of Arabian Gulf and the Gulf is given the alternative name of Mar Mesendin, or Sea of Mesendin, now known as Musandam, a governate in Oman. No Known Copyright No Known Copyright Relief shown pictorially Descriptive text on verso in Latin This is a new plate of the 1570 map, copied word for word. In the Arabian Peninsula the name Ara, a city at the mouth of the Red Sea, has been omitted, while Medina Tallnabi becomes Medina, the word Tallnabi being moved to the left to cover a formerlu nameless town south of Jabul. From "Theatrum orbis terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius (Antwerpen : Plantijn, 1579). This is from the second version of the 1579 printing Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01187 Print Map Item-ID: i11404589 BIB-ID: 1172801 [Ca. 1:28 000 000] Asia Maps Early works to 1800 Antwerp 605345103 SzZUIDS 970516 20131222013724.0 ocn605345103 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) ger