Collection  C 003: Cutter World Map Collection: Map of the world, 1560 click here to search map descriptions To thumbnail

Item Number: 1970:02007.06          Date of map: 1560     Title: Orbis Terrae compendiosa descriptio [map of the world]

   Cartographer (personal name): P., F., engraver                      Height (inches): 8.25                    Width (inches): 11

   This map shows locations of some communities (mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere), and mentions some navigational aids.  Mentions the Seven Cities of Cibola, depicts California and Greenland as peninsulas and Terra Australis beneath both hemispheres with both Africa and South American separated from it.  New Guinea is disproportionately large, and the Western Hemisphere land masses are inaccurately depicted in ratio of length to width.  Canada's boundaries are not clearly drawn, and most of North America is not depicted.  Curved projection.  

This map forms part of the Cutter World Map Collection, collection C 003, at the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.
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