Detail View: Maps of Africa: Presbiteri Johannis, Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.

Title: 
Presbiteri Johannis, Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Title in Translation: 
The land of Prester John.
Publication Place: 
Antwerp
Publisher: 
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Publication Date: 
1573
Cartographer: 
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Height: 
37 cm.
Width: 
43 cm.
Scale: 
No scale given
Color: 
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes: 
Map often referred to as the Prester John map, first issued in Additamentum. Dedicated to biblical David. An Arab dhow appears off the west coast. In the seas, two dolphins and on land four elephants; Map depicts Africa from the Mediterranean to the Mountains of the Moon.
Provenance: 
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area: 
Africa
Geographic Focus: 
Africa
Period: 
16th c.
Norwich Number: 
11
Call Number: 
NOR 0011
Source: 
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
References: 
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page: 
map 0011, p. 16
Program: 
Jacobson Africana Program