"Cvm privilegio"., Copy 2: Imperfect: Mutilated with loss of information. Hand colored., From Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572., Includes index of city features and a depiction of Venetian figures., Latin, Italian., No. on verso: 43., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590. Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Latin
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4.
Published / Created:
[15--?]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 575
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
In the center of the map is Mecca; the ocean is located on each side along the outer edge of the sheet with the pillars of the earth in the four corners. Great emphasis is placed on Africa and the Nile river. Other places of interest include: Wasteland where nobody lives, Mountains of the Moon, Land of the Slavs and Franks, Gog and Magog, Land of the Turks (Central Asia), Red Sea (rectangular water mass), the Source of life.
Description:
Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Yale '27, in honor of Alexander O. Vietor, Yale '36, in November 1978., Removed from a bound volume., and Tempera and ink.