https://hist231.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/718290cf4456efd3c4ce1c4ace4d539a.jpg 89a41b25162148d41c88eb1ff50de02b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Universal Atlas Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. World map prepared by Fernão Vaz Dourado, frontiersman of the lands, which encompasses all the kingdoms, lands [and] islands around the world with their routes and heights and angles, [made] in Goa [in] 1571. Description An account of the resource Vaz Dourado’s Universal Atlas depicts the coastlines and interiors of much of the world, as explored by the Portuguese up until that point. Our facsimile of the atlas contains fifteen loose-leaf folios of maps and three folios containing astronomical and navigational charts. An additional folio of the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as the atlas’s frontispiece, are missing from the original manuscript. Each map features a stretch of coastline marked by city names perpendicular to the coast, as well as rivers which extend into the landmasses. Both the water and land are uncolored. The boundaries between land and water are marked by a green outline. Some coastlines remain unbounded, indicating a lack of information about those areas. Vaz Dourado’s remarkable use of color attests to a relatively expensive manufacturing process. The smaller islands in the maps are extravagantly colored and often take on a geometric shape. This intense color also appears in the maps’ exaggerated river deltas and the flags and crests which indicate ownership and often attest to colonial dominion. Other colorful embellishments on the map include its elaborate cartouches, ornamented with geometric and floral details on each page, and its compasses, from which the maps’ rhumb lines emerge. The map includes annotations regarding the European discovery of various landmasses and islands, especially around the Pacific and Indonesia. This emphasis on naval exploration may also justify the inclusion of an almost empty map of the Pacific, which helps record the circumnavigational voyages that the sequencing of the maps can recreate. Compared to his predecessors, Vaz Dourado’s maps of Indonesia feature significantly more detail and mimetic accuracy, both in terms of island shape and place names. Other outstanding features include Vaz Dourado’s depictions of Japan, island chains in the Indian Ocean, Japan, island-dotted river courses in South America and the Middle East, East Asian architecture, and Mexico City/Tenochtitlan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fernão Vaz Dourado Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Universal Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado, 1571, Lisbon, Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Colecção Cartográfica, n.º 165. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource atlas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dourado, Fernando Vaz. “Fernão Vaz Dourado, atlas universal, 1571.” Barcelona: M. Moleiro Editor, S.A., 2011. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1571 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. manuscript Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Special Collections, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Relation A related resource Archival information and images of the original: https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=4162624 Compare with another atlas by Vaz Dourado: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/46230 Language A language of the resource Portuguese Type The nature or genre of the resource atlas Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://bridge.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01BRC_INST/1tn7c8c/alma991001314219702971" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>Special Collections (Horizontal Shelving)</span><span> </span><span>;</span><span> </span><span>G1001 .D68 2011</span></a> Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Pacific Ocean, North and Central America, South America References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Alegria, Maria Fernanda, Suzanne Daveau, João Carlos Garcia, Francesc Relaño. “Portuguese Cartography in the Renaissance.” In The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 975-1068. Accessed online at https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt1/Volume3_Part1.html. Garcia, João Carlos. “Description of the Atlas.” In Universal Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado: 1571 [Commentary Volume]. Barcelona: M. Moleiro Editor, S.A. 2013. (See also this press release relating to the facsimile: Garcia, João Carlos. “Journey Around the World with the Universal Atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado” M. Moliero – Facsimile Books. October 28, 2018, https://www.moleiro.com/en/press/journey-around-the-world.py.) Melo, Maria João, Paula Nabais, Maria Guimarães, et. al. "Organic Dyes in Illuminated Manuscripts: A Unique Cultural and Historic Record." Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 374, no. 2082 (2016): 1-20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26116084. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights for maps held by individual publishers and institutions. Thumbnails displayed constitute fair use. 17th century atlas city icons islands manuscript map Prester John rhumb lines rivers