Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence
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Beschreibung
This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemüller’s famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.
Provides the first transcriptions and translations to texts and place names on the Yale Martellus map, one of the most important of the fifteenth century
Offers transcriptions and English translations of many of the previously-unstudied texts on Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map
Highly illustrated and accompanied by online access to many more downloadable high-resolution multispectral images of the Martellus map, an essential resource for further study
Provides the first transcriptions and translations to texts and place names on the Yale Martellus map, one of the most important of the fifteenth century Offers transcriptions and English translations of many of the previously-unstudied texts on Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map Highly illustrated and accompanied by online access to many more downloadable high-resolution multispectral images of the Martellus map, an essential resource for further study
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Chet Van Duzer
Themen in »Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)«
Renaissance cartography Martin Waldseemüller Giovanni Matteo Contarini Christopher Columbus Multispectral imaging African cartography Fifteenth century cartography Claudius Ptolemy Hortus sanitatis Martellus Map of the World Waldseemuller Map historical geography
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“This first overall study of Martellus’s map provides new findings solidly established and focuses on the Martellus figure hitherto poorly known.” (Patrick Gautier Dalché, Aethiopica, Vol. 22, 2019)
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