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Map The Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with all the Harbors, Islands, Cliffs, Sandbars, and Shallows. Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angôlae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei

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Title

  • The Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with all the Harbors, Islands, Cliffs, Sandbars, and Shallows.

Other Title

  • Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angôlae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei

Summary

  • This highly decorative map of the southwestern coast of Africa was published in 1598 in Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten: His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies Devided into Foure Bookes. The original edition of this most important cartographic work was issued in Amsterdam two years earlier under the title Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien. Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) spent five years in the "Portuguese State of India" and its capital at Goa in the 1580s. There he learned the safe navigation routes to Asia, which the Portuguese treated as closely guarded national secrets in order to protect their monopoly on trade with the Spice Islands. The Amsterdam bookseller, printer, and publisher Cornelis Claesz recognized the potential in Van Linschoten's knowledge of the East, and helped him to produce the three books of the Itinerario. Claesz supplemented the narrative with maps by well-known cartographers, such as the map shown here, superbly engraved in the Flemish style by Florent van Langren. The scale is in German miles and Spanish leagues. It includes coastal views of the South Atlantic islands of Ascension and Saint Helena within a strapwork cartouche at the bottom of the map and two compass roses. The title cartouche is decorated with birds, fruit, and scroll-work. The sea is decorated with ships and a sea monster, the land with animals and mythical creatures. The map shows the western coast of Africa from the Gulf of Guinea to just beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with excellent detail along the coastline.

Names

  • Langren, Arnold Florent van, 1580-1644 Engraver.
  • Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611 Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • London : John Wolfe, 1596.

Headings

  • -  Angola
  • -  Benin
  • -  Cameroon
  • -  Congo
  • -  Côte d'Ivoire
  • -  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • -  Equatorial Guinea
  • -  Gabon
  • -  Ghana
  • -  Namibia
  • -  Nigeria
  • -  South Africa
  • -  1596
  • -  Cape of Good Hope Region (South Africa)
  • -  Coastlines
  • -  Exploration and encounters

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Scale about 1:13,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 39 x 53 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in English and Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668690

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Chicago citation style:

Langren, Arnold Florent Van, Engraver, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten. The Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with all the Harbors, Islands, Cliffs, Sandbars, and Shallows. London: John Wolfe, 1596. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668690/.

APA citation style:

Langren, A. F. V. & Linschoten, J. H. V. (1596) The Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with all the Harbors, Islands, Cliffs, Sandbars, and Shallows. London: John Wolfe. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668690/.

MLA citation style:

Langren, Arnold Florent Van, Engraver, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten. The Description of the Coast of Guinea, Manicongo, and Angola, and so Proceeding Forwards beyond the Cape of Good Hope, with all the Harbors, Islands, Cliffs, Sandbars, and Shallows. London: John Wolfe, 1596. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668690/>.