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Map [Portolan chart showing the east coast of North America from the Caribbean to Newfoundland] Title from dealer's description: Manuscript portolan of the North American coast from Texas to Labrador

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Title

  • [Portolan chart showing the east coast of North America from the Caribbean to Newfoundland]

Other Title

  • Title from dealer's description: Manuscript portolan of the North American coast from Texas to Labrador

Names

  • Velho, Bartolomeu, -1568, cartographer

Created / Published

  • [Portugal] : [Bartolomeu Velho], approximately 1560.

Headings

  • -  Coasts--North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  North America

Genre

  • Early maps
  • Portolan charts
  • Manuscript maps

Notes

  • -  Shows geographic discoveries made by Jacques Cartier during his voyages to Canada in 1534 to 1536.
  • -  Title provided by cataloger.
  • -  Pen-and-ink and watercolor on vellum.
  • -  Attributed to Bartolomeu Velho.
  • -  This chart, found in England in 1961 in a 17th century binding, is the upper left section of a larger map.
  • -  Includes many coastal place names, images of three flags, and bar scale without legible units of measurement.
  • -  Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica, volume V, pages 7-9.

Medium

  • 1 manuscript map : color, vellum ; 53 x 35 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3301.C6 1560 .V4

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023586398

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Velho, Bartolomeu, -1568, Cartographer. Portolan chart showing the east coast of North America from the Caribbean to Newfoundland. [Portugal: Bartolomeu Velho, approximately, 1560] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023586398/.

APA citation style:

Velho, B. (1560) Portolan chart showing the east coast of North America from the Caribbean to Newfoundland. [Portugal: Bartolomeu Velho, approximately] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023586398/.

MLA citation style:

Velho, Bartolomeu, -1568, Cartographer. Portolan chart showing the east coast of North America from the Caribbean to Newfoundland. [Portugal: Bartolomeu Velho, approximately, 1560] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023586398/>.