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[Chart of the Indian Ocean]

infoGascoyne, Joel; 1684

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Colourful hand-drawn portolan (nautical) navigation chart, featuring a rhumbline network (the web of interconnected lines), islands, shoals and reefs. With an elaborately decorated cartouche, scale and compass roses. Vellum on folding wood boards.

Details

Date

1684

Map Maker

Gascoyne, Joel

Attributes

Compass Rose

Longitude and Latitude

Rhumbline Network

Scale

Insets

Cartouche

Illustration

Features

Regional Border

Shoal

Reef

Library Catalogue

Title

[Portolan chart of Africa, India and the East Indies] [cartographic material]

Author

Gascoyne, Joel, 1650- cartographer

Publication Date

1684

Map Data

Scale approximately 1:8,500,000 (E 18°25'00"--E 117°07'00"/N 27°16'00"--S 36°27'00").

Format

1 chart : coloured ; 78 x 96 cm, mounted on hinged wooden boards folded to 24 x 78 cm

Language

English

Extent

1 scans.

Subjects

Manuscript maps -- Early works to 1800; Indian Ocean -- Maps -- Early works to 1800; Indian Ocean -- Charts, diagrams, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Portolan charts; Manuscript maps

Shelfmark

Map Res. 151 (Weston Stack)

Permalink

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/1vrc72e/oxfaleph022323708

Aleph System Number

22323708

Miscellaneous Notes

General Note: Manuscript chart on vellum pasted to four hinged wooden boards, folding accordian style.
General Note: With wind rose and rhumb lines.
General Note: Coastlines in colour, some areas highlighted in gold; lettering in black and red.
General Note: Scale bars of 200 leagues [= 113 mm] and 190 leagues [=107 mm].
General Note: Some smudging of red lettering, especially on left hand side of the chart.
Citation Note: Pflederer, Richard L. : Catalogue of the portolan charts and atlases in the Bodleian Library, C-411
Citation Note: Pflederer, Richard L. : Census of portolan charts and atlases, C-411
Geographic Coverage Note: Covers Indian Ocean, eastern part of Africa, Arabian peninsula, India, southeast Asia as far as Java, extreme west of Australia.

Copy-specific Notes

Open note in new window Notes for Bodleian Library: Map Res. 151 Binding: Housed in 20th century brown cloth covered dropped front clam shell box with title and statement of responsibility lettered in gilt on lid. - Provenance name: Burn, J. H., donor. - Provenance note: Given by J.H. Burn through Friends of the Bodleian, 1933. - Prev. shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 5 [transferred December 2020]

Further Information

made by Joel Gascoyne at the sign of the Platt nere Wapping old staires 3 doares below ye Chappell Ano Dom 1684.

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