Valletta Citta Nova di Malta - UC Berkeley GeoData
- Description:
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Francesco Villamena. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Decorative cartouche, compass rose, coats of arms. Shows topography, drainage, cities and towns. Includes detailed plans of the fortifications, coats of arms, an explanation of the scale of the map, decorative embellishments and a key identifying important places. Inset map of Malta and Goza near bottom. Inset of Maltese archipelago. Compass rose with inset of Italy and islands. Dedicated by Fr Francesco dell'Antella to Giacomo Bosio. With the arms of Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt 1601-1622, 53rd Grand Master and 11th in Malta of the Langue of France. From Istoria della Sacra Religione di S. Giovanni Gerosolimitano by Giacomo Bosio. Rome 1594-1602. SSW at the top. An example of another state of this map, with the arms of Grand Master Caraffa, is bound into a Library copy of Abela and Ciantar's Malta Illustrata Malta 1772.
- Creator:
- Villamena, Francesco, approximately1566-1624
- Publisher:
- Francesco Villamena
- Provider:
- Stanford
- Resource Class:
- Maps
- Subject:
- Bird's-eye views
- Date Issued:
- 1601
- Spatial Coverage:
- Malta
- Rights:
- Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection – Maps of Malta courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
- Rights Holder:
- This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
- License:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Access Rights:
- Public
- Format:
- JPEG2000
- Georeferenced:
- false
- More details at:
- https://purl.stanford.edu/xb891gz3195