Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Delineatio Promontorii, Quod Cabo de bona Esperanca vulgo vocatur.
Title in Translation:
Map of the promontory known as Cape of Good Hope.
Publication Place:
Frankfurt
Publisher:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Publication Date:
1598
Cartographer:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Engraver:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Height:
14 cm.
Width:
17 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
The seas contain sea monsters, sailing ships, natives paddling a canoe and two compass roses. Part of folio map with Latin text on bottom. "The map also appears in Indiae Orientalis Pars, IX (Verhoefs voyage to the Moluccas, 1607-1609), by de Bry, published in Frankfurt in 1612, with a Latin edition 1607-1612." Top right: III. Bottom right: GK.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Cape of Good Hope
Period:
16th c.
Norwich Number:
205
Call Number:
NOR 0205
Source:
Petits Voyages (1598)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0205, p. 232
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Delineatio Promontorii, Quod Cabo de bona Esperanca vulgo vocatur.