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In August 2014, an interdisciplinary team of imaging scientists and scholars gathered at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to undertake exciting work on a map that in all probability influenced Christopher Columbus’s conception of world geography. Drawn by German cartographer, Henricus Martellus, who was working in Florence, Italy, in about 1491, the map shows the entire world as it was known at the time.
You can see in the picture above the large mass of Africa to the left, Europe with its telltale Iberian and Italian peninsulas to the north, and the mass of Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Pacific islands to the right. At the farthest right is Japan, depicted for the first time with a north-south orientation. Missing, of course, is the New World, which was still unknown to Europe when the map was made. Around the margins are decorative elements with descriptions of lands and peoples, and cartouches, with Latin text, presumably identifying the contents of the map (though most of the text is obscured).
Acquired by the Beinecke Library in the early 1960s, the Martellus map (as it is now known) was regarded by scholar R.A. Skelton as the “missing link” of intellectual and cartographic traditions at the time of the discover
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Henricus Martellus Germanus
German cartographer (fl. 1480–1496)
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Biography
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Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Overview
- Authors:
- Chet Van Duzer
David Rumsey Research Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, USA
- 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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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 th