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Nova, et integra Universi Orbis Descriptio

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Transliteration of the salutation:

    Orontius F., Delph., to the reader. Offers to you, dear reader, a description of the whole of the world, according to modern historians, geographers and hydrographers minds, as well as maintained through the equator, as well as parallel to those that are from the centers of proportion, it formula in the plane co-extensive with a twin of the human heart, of which the left side of the north at the south parts of the world, however, embraces the right. You then receive a generous present of this: thanks to Christian Wechel, whose popularity at the expense of the latter communicated to you, goodbye, 1531. In July.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    G3200 (Library of Congress Call Number)

    28756 (Cat ID)

    33371 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Nova, et integra Universi Orbis Descriptio
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Christian Wechel
  • Place
  • Date
    1531
  • Physical Description

    1 map (woodcut) ; 31 x 44 cm.

  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Related Object Notes
    Object file 3844-07.
  • Subject Category
  • Provenance Details
    Enid Evans recollects that she paid just over 100 pounds sterling for this map (7/12/01)
  • Content
    Double cordiform (heart-shaped) world map. It is probably the first map designed on a double polar projection and the first to name Terra Australis, adding the comment "Terra Australis recenter inventa sed nondum plene cognita" = South[ern] land recently discovered but not yet fully known. This map is the prototype for Mercator's map of 1538 which in turn was to influence cartography well into the seventeenth century.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Rare maps--16th century]

    Original map published in the 1532 Paris edition of "Novus Orbis Regionum". The Parisian printer Christian Wechel is known to have printed seperate maps for sale. The text panel addresses the 'dear reader', and after presenting the map's projection as in shape of 'twin human heart', commends [the printer] Christian Wechel into the reader's favour. Referenced: Shirley, 66.

  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Last Update
    05 Dec 2024
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