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An image showing 'Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei.... Front.'
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Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei...

Single sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale [circa 1:12,000,000]. The border is graduated for latitude and rhumb lines are shown. The scale is in German miles and Spanish leagues. Inset views of Ascension Island and St Helena are set in an elaborate frame. The title cartouche is decorated with birds, fruit and scroll-work; the sea is decorated with ships and a sea-creature, and the land is decorated with animals and mythical creatures. Coverage includes the west coast of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope.

This is a sheet from Linschoten's Itinerario, first published in Amsterdam in 1596.
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Object Details

ID: G213:8/13
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Linschoten, Jan Hugen Van; Van Langren, Arnold Florent
Places: Cape of Good Hope; Ascension Island Saint Helena Southern Atlantic
Date made: 1596
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 39.5 x 53.5cm, on sheet 41.5 x 57cm.