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Add MS 24065
- Record Id:
- 032-002031356
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031356
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0003a5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186876851.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24065
- Title:
- Pierre Desceliers, World map
- Scope & Content:
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Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known.
Decoration:
Hand-painted illustrations of cities, kings, exotic peoples, animals, ships, and sea-monsters. Arms of King Henry II of France (lower left corner of the map) and the Duc de Montmorency (lower right).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002031356", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 24065: Pierre Desceliers, World map" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031356
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031356
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100186876851.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1550
- Date Range:
- 1550
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Four conjoint parchment sheets.
Dimensions: 1350 × 2150 mm.
Script: Humanistic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pierre Desceliers (died after 1553), cartographer and priest: inscribed, ‘Faicte a Arques par Pierres Desceliers Presbytre: Lan: 1550’.
Provenance:
Cristoforo Negri (1809–1896), geographer and professor of constitutional law: purchased from a family of Spanish refugees in 1842. Acquired from him by the British Museum in 1861 for £150 (Department of Manuscripts, Acquisitions Committee Minutes, 1861, entry for 9 March), after an unsuccessful attempt by C.A. de Challaye to have it purchased by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Anthiaume, p. 88; Barber and Harper, p. 85).
- Publications:
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C.A. de Challaye, ‘Notice sur la grande carte manuscrite faite à Arques en 1550 par Pierre Desceliers, pour S. M. le roi de France Henry II’, Bulletin de la Société de géographie, 4th ser., 4 (1852), pp. 235–44, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k37659k/f243.image.
A. Malte-Brun, ‘Un géographe français au XVIe siècle retroubé. Pierre Desceliers et ses deux portulans”, Bulletin de la Société de géographie, 4th ser., 12 (1876), pp. 295–301.
C.H. Coote, Autotype Facsimiles of Three Mappemondes, Bibliotheca Lindesiana Collations and Notes, 4 (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1898), https://archive.org/details/autotypefacsimilcoot.
A. Anthiaume, Cartes marines, constructions navales, voyages de découverte chez les Normands, 1500–1650 (Paris: Dumont, 1916), i, 88–91, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5784435q.
Jean Michel Massing, ‘La mappemonde de Pierre Desceliers de 1550’, in Henry II et les arts, ed. by Hervé Oursel and Julia Fritsch (Paris: École du Louvre, 2003), pp. 231–48.
Jean Michel Massing, ‘The image of Africa and the iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Desceliers's World Map of 1550’, Black Africans in Renassance Europe, ed. by Thomas Foster Earle and K. J. P. Lowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 51.
Peter Barber and Tom Harper, Magnificent Maps (London: British Library, 2010), pp. 84–85.
Chet van Duzer, The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers’ Map of 1550 (London: British Library, 2015).
- Exhibitions:
- In Search of Utopia, M - Museum Leuven, Leuven, 19 October 2016 - 17 January 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)