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Cosmographia universalis ab Orontino olim descripta.
[Verona or Venice]
Joannes Paulus Cimerlinus Veronesis in aes incidebat
Anno 1566.
Engraved map printed on two sheets, joined. At the upper left a decoration with a seated angel, holding a shield bearing the engraver's signature. The shield in the hands of a corresponding angel at the upper right has a simple shading. At the lower left a scene with putti and a broken column bearing a dedication to Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel. His coat of arms appears on the base of the corresponding column at the lower right. The map itself is surrounded by a scrollwork frame, including the map title and the four cardinals in Latin on flying banderoles. The four corners of the plate are filled with allegorical figures. A very fine impression with unusually large margins.
490 by 590mm. (19.25 by 23.25 inches).
2390
notes:
The map - engraved by the Veronese artist Giovanni Cimerlino - was based upon Oronce Fine's world map of 1534; and although the two maps are cartographically almost identical, Cimerlino frames the map with an elaborate Renaissance composition. Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel and Lord Maltravers (1512-1580) was a godson of King Henry VIII and a leading nobleman at the Tudor court. Arundel had the auspicious honour of serving under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, a...
bibliography:
Shirley, 116; Woodward, D. Analysis of paper and ink in early maps, Library Trends, 1987; Imago Mundi III (Tooley, R.V., Maps in Italian Atlases, no. 19); Kish, G. "The cosmographic heart: Cordiform maps of the 16th century," Imago Mundi, vol. 19, p. 13-21.
