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Title

Typus orbis terrarvm [cartographic material]:

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Item (linked) part of

World maps [cartographic material] (R11981-1-8-E)

Date(s)

[1570]

Place of creation

Belgium

Publisher

s.n.

Extent

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

Scope and content

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.

Conditions of access

Cartographic material
Microfiche NMC27661

90: Open

Item no. (creator)

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item # 13

Cartographic material

90: Open

Volume
13

90: Open

Archival reference no.

R11981-462-0-E

Other accession no.

80101/245 CA

Local class no.

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

Terms of use

Additional name(s)

Cartographer: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.
Engraver: Hogenberg, Franz, d. 1590? .

Biography / Administrative history

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.

Additional information

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.

Related materials

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)

Cartographic math data

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

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

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.

Varying form of title

TYPUS ORBIS TERRARUM (Abraham Ortelius 1570)

Subject heading

World - Maps - Early works to 1600 .

Source

Private

Other system control no.

CARTO34678

MIKAN no.

4152649