https://hist231.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/32740c7ae87b95f9c3396c1abef0e360.jpeg af667a5f6164bf77b46b4779a38cb9f3 https://hist231.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/35d8a57d9565daab9431d1f5316d2128.jpeg 74a196d403eca48d9023fa91e1eb50b4 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 Atlas maior of 1655 Description An account of the resource At the start of the 1600s, there was an economic and artistic boom in Amsterdam and the Hondius publishing house was the primary map publishing house. However, in 1630, William Blaeu and his son, Joan Blaeu, published a small atlas with maps, many using Hondius’s plates, which were acquired after a death in the Hondius family. This started a fierce rivalry and competition between the houses that would last for thirty years – leading both families to continually make larger and more comprehensive atlases. There was a bigger focus on aesthetics, quantity of maps, luxury of production, and the atlas as a status symbol, rather than maps that best reflect the world. The Atlas Maior, by Joan Blaeu, is known as the most impressive and expensive 17th century manuscript. It was first published in 1662, in Latin. It has 594 maps, 3,368 pages of text, and is split into 11 volumes. Almost all of the maps use data from decades old surveys and maps. Blaeu redrew the maps in his style, with beautiful colors, scripts, and illustrations. Some maps have contemporary data that Blaeu collected himself. While Blaeu succeeded his father as the official map maker for the Dutch East India company, he was not allowed to use the maps and data from his job in his atlas. The Atlas Maior has regional, country, and province maps, with detailed town names, plants, and buildings. Some maps have latitude and longitude, with detailed ships flying country flags on the oceans. There are regional maps of everywhere in the world, from South East Asia to the Arctic to South America – however most maps are of Europe. There are references to the Greek gods and classical mythologies, with the gods drawn around the first world map. Blaeu’s atlases were part of a transition period of borders on maps. As attitudes around mapping territory changed, from a collection of peoples to land to have sovereignty over, atlases began drawing clearly defined borders. Many of Blaeu’s maps have borders, but not all - as would soon become the standard. The Atlas Maior was made to order, printed in the Blaeu printing presses - the biggest in the world. It was featured in atlas collections for the next several hundred years. From 1664 to 1672, there were also versions published with Dutch, French, German, and Spanish texts. There are varying numbers of volumes for the different languages. Carleton’s facsimile has selections in Latin, English, French, and German. (Kezia Sharnoff) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joan Blaeu Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Blaeu, Joan. Atlas Maior. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1662-1672. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource atlas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Blaeu, Joan. Atlas Maior of 1655. Edited by P. C. J. van der Krogt. Cologne: Taschen, 2005. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1662-1672 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. engraving Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Special Collections, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Relation A related resource <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu-maior/info.html">National Library of Scotland: Blaeu Atlas Maior, 1662-5 - Further information</a> Language A language of the resource English, French, German 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/luveef/alma991015953409702971">Special Collections (Folio) G1015.B48 1665 .K7 2005.</a> References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Akerman, James R. “The Structuring of Political Territory in Early Printed Atlases.” Imago Mundi 47 (1995): 141. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1151310">https://www.jstor.org/stable/1151310</a>. “Blaeu Atlas Maior, 1662-5 - Further information.” National Library of Scotland. Accessed October 18, 2024. <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu-maior/info.html">https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu-maior/info.html</a>. History of Cartography. Edited by Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley. vol 4, Cartography in the European Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 768, 834-836. <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V4/Volume4.html">https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V4/Volume4.html</a>. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Image reproduced with the permission of the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/copyright.html#noncommercial">National Library of Scotland. </a> Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. World 17th century Arabian Peninsula Arctic Asia buildings cities Europe mythology New World Pacific Ocean Red Sea rivers ships