COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Ptolemy, Claudius
Author:
Gastaldi, Giacomo
Author:
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577
Author:
Pedrezano, Giovanbattista
Date:
1548
Short Title:
Universale Novo
Publisher:
Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano
Publisher Location:
Venetia
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
13
Obj Width cm:
18
Scale 1:
65,000,000
Note:
Engraved modern map of the world. An oval projection, with North America and Asia connected as one land mass. Showing the Amazon is shown flowing North-South and California peninsula. There is little detail along the east coast of North America. This is the reduction of an extremely rare map published just two years earlier that Tooley described as "one of the most important map of the sixteenth century."
World Area:
World
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Universale Novo. (to accompany) Ptolemeo. La geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino ... In Venetia, ... per Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano ... Anni x. M.D.XLVIII (1548).
List No:
11479.129
Page No:
59
Series No:
129
Publication Author:
Ptolemy, Claudius
Publication Author:
Gastaldi, Giacomo
Publication Author:
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577
Publication Author:
Pedrezano, Giovanbattista
Pub Date:
1548
Pub Title:
Ptolemeo. La geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino, con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano Munstero alamanno, con le tauole non solamente antiche & moderne solite di stamparsi, ma altre nuoue aggiunteui di messer Iacopo Gastaldo piamontese cosmographo, ridotta in uolgare italiano da m. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo senese medico eccellentissimo. Con l'aggiunta d'infiniti nomi moderni, ... fatta con grandissima diligenza da esso meser Iacopo Gastaldo, il che in nissun altro Ptolemeo si ritroua. Operueramemte non meno util che necessarid. In Venetia, ... per Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano ... Anni x. M.D.XLVIII (1548).
Pub Note:
The first pocket atlas and the first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in Italian, also the first engraved Ptolemy edition since Berlingheri in 1482. Maps engraved on copper by Giacomo Gastaldi, the foremost Italian cartographer of the 16th century, marking a turning point in the history of cartography, mostly based on those of Munster woodcuts in the Latin edition of 1540. Nordenskiold noted that "Copper engraving was reintroduced into the service of cartography" as it was the first atlas in the 16th century to use this process. Maps are accompanied by descriptive text printed on the backs. It is likely the most important atlas published between Waldseemuller's 1513 Ptolemy and Ortelius's Theatrum of 1570. The translation was made by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the famous botanist. The atlas contains 60 double page copperplate maps, 26 of Ptolemy, supplemented by 34 Modern maps, woodcut title page, illustrated page of "Ptolemeo degli astronomi prencipe ..." and text. Bound in contemporary limp vellum covers with title inked on spine. Most of the Ptolemy and Modern maps showing illustrations of ships, sea monsters, fishes, trees, figures, landmarks and place names. Every where in this atlas are indications of Gastaldi's effort to use the most up-to-date geographical information available. Atlas includes the first engraved maps of part of North America and South America, Tierra Nueva map of the East coast of North America from Florida to Lavrador, is considered the earliest map to focus on the East Coast of North America. Nordenskiold calls it "the very first atlas of the New World". It also has the earliest maps to reflect Verrazano and Cartier's explorations. One of the two world maps in the atlas, the "Universle Novo is the reduction of an extremely rare map published just two years earlier that Tooley described as "one of the most important map of the sixteenth century." Borri provides a thorough analysis of both general maps of Italy. Gole described Calecut Nova Tavola as the first separate map of Indian peninsula. Although only one edition of this atlas is known, a somewhat enlarged edition first published by G. Ruscelli in 1561 (see our copy). In this form the atlas was issued five more times by various publishers.
Pub List No:
11479.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
60
Pub Height cm:
17
Pub Width cm:
12
Image No:
11479129.jp2
Authors:
Ptolemy, Claudius; Gastaldi, Giacomo; Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577; Pedrezano, Giovanbattista
Link To Source
Universale Novo
