[Untitled map of the world].

Author
Vesconte, Pietro [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Hannover] : [Typis Wechelianus], [1611]
Description
  • Scale not given. (W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--S 90°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 33 cm. in diameter

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Circular world map with Jersusalem at the center, based on a portolan chart by Pietro Vesconte which originally appeared in the Liber secretorum fidelium crucis super Terrae Sanctae recuperatione et conservatione, by Marino Sanudo.
  • From: Gesta Dei per Francos ... [Edited by Jacques Bongars]. Hanoviæ : typis Wechelianis, apud heredes I. Aubrii, 1611.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy is gift of Holly and Henry Wendt, Princeton Class of 1955.
References
  • Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 276
  • Wendt, H. Envisioning the world 4
OCLC
846794753
International Standard Recording Code
  • HM 2013-40
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