Henricus Martellus's world map at Yale (c. 1491) : multispectral imaging, sources, and influence

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Henricus Martellus's world map at Yale (c. 1491) : multispectral imaging, sources, and influence

Chet Van Duzer

Springer, c2019

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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 Waldseemuller'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.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1 1. Henricus Martellus and his Works 6 Biographical Information 6 Manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geography 8 Manuscripts of Martellus's Insularium illustratum 11 Separate World Maps 18 2. The Legends on the Yale Martellus Map 35 Legends Outside of the Map Proper 37 Legends Describing the Winds 37 Text in the Lower Left Corner 43 Text in the Lower Right Corner 45 Legends in the Oceans 49 Legends in the Northern Ocean 49 Legend in the Atlantic Ocean 52 Legends in the Western Indian Ocean 53 Legends in the Eastern Indian Ocean 59 Legends in the Proto-Pacific 63 Legends on Land 73 Legends in Northern Asia 73 Legends in Central Asia 91 Legends in Southern Asia 92 Legends in Northern Africa 98 3. Toponyms in Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia 104 4. Toponyms on the Western and Southern Coasts of Africa 107 5. Southern Africa and the Egyptus novelo maps 117 6. The Influence of the Yale Martellus Map 141 Conclusions 161 Appendix: Equipment and Techniques Used in the Multispectral Imaging of the Yale Martellus Map, by Roger Easton, Gregory Heyworth, and Kenneth Boydston 162

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