Oval map of the world
Item Information
- Title:
- Oval map of the world
- Creator:
- Bordon, Benedetto, 1450-1530
- Contributor:
- Zoppino, Nicolò, active 1508-1544
- Date:
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[1528]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
- Phillips Academy
- Collection (local):
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Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy, Andover MA
- Subjects:
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World maps--Early works to 1800
- Extent:
- 1 map : hand col. ; 22 x 38 cm.
- Terms of Use:
-
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
- Publisher:
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[Venice] :
[N. d'Aristotile detto Zoppino]
- Scale:
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Scale [ca. 1:125,000,000]
- Language:
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Italian
- Notes:
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Early map of known world with text in Italian below the bottom neat line.
Relief shown pictorially.
Text on verso includes a portion of the key to areas on the map. and ends with "DD".
Includes lines of latitude and names equator, Cancer and Capricorn.
Includes lines of longitude, but no prime meridian.
Diagonal lines indicate northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest.
From Bordon's Isolario.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Notes (citation):
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Shirley, R.W. Mapping the world, 59
- Identifier:
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1324
