[An untitled manuscript map in French depicting the Mississippi River valley from the Gulf of Mexico to the Illinois River in the north and tracing the Wabash and Ohio Rivers in the northeast .]
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15830273
Description
- Title
- [An untitled manuscript map in French depicting the Mississippi River valley from the Gulf of Mexico to the Illinois River in the north and tracing the Wabash and Ohio Rivers in the northeast .]
- Contributor
- Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
- Published / Created
- 1683?]
- Publication Place
- [S.l.,
- Description
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Includes identification of locations and text in ink. Latitude and longitude figures appear in ink and pencil along upper and left margins although they do not correspond to modern measurements.
Includes two significant blocks of text: "La Rivière Ohio..." (above) and "L'embouchúre du fleuve Missisipi, que M. de La Salle a descendu le premier iusques a la Mer, ou il arrive le 7 Avril 1682 avec le P. Zenobe Recolles missionaire...du nom de Rio Escondido."
Relief shown pictorially.
The map is illustrated in ink and wash with the following vignettes counterclockwide from bottom: native peoples building a boat from felled trees; a roofed structure; a grove of trees; beds; native peoples flipping over an alligator with a pole, and then attacking it with clubs and arrows near a roofed structure; and a small herd of buffalo, labelled "Pisikious ou Boeffs Sauvagees."
The Mississippi River is labelled "Fleuve Missisipi ou Colbert."
The Mississippi River is shown flowing into the western coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The Rivière Ouabache (Wabash) is shown separated from the Ohio.
This map was probably used by Coronelli in his preparation of an improved terrestrial globe for presentation to Louis XIV by Cardinal César d'Estrées, ca. 1683, see the text of the note on the right of the map, "La Rivière Ohio ou Belle rivière ainsi appelée pour sa beauté..." which also appears on Coronelli's globe (see also Pelletier reference). - Extent
- 1 map : ms. ; on sheet 51 x 66 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Scale
- Scale not given.
- Coordinates
- a
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- 807 1683
- Container / Volume
- BRBL_00717
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- cartographic
- Genre
- Maps
- Resource Type
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Mississippi River Valley--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
United States--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800 - Subject (Name)
- Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
- Subject (Topic)
- Indians of North America--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
- Citation
- Pelletier, Monique, "Les Amériques, de la découverte à la cartographie de Martin Waldseemüller à Guillaune DeLisle du 16e au 18e siècle". Presented at the Festival International de Géographie Saint-Dié des-Vosges, 2006. See http://fig-st-die.educa
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7958678
- Object ID (OID)
- 15830273
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