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C1655
Chekiang, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Decima. (Shanghai / Hangzhou)
Mapmaker:
Joan Blaeu (1596 - 1673)
Important map of Chekiang, the Tenth Imperial Province of China, based on information provided by the Jesuit missionary, Martino Martini (1614-1661) to Blaeu. The map extends from Shanghai in the north and to Pingyang in the south. Chekiang is present … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Chekiang, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Decima. (Shanghai / Hangzhou)
Date:
C1655
Mapmaker:
Joan Blaeu (1596 - 1673)
Condition:
In good condition with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Original hand coloured copper engraving with additional gilded highlights.
Image Size:
485mm
x 400mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1655
Description:
Important map of Chekiang, the Tenth Imperial Province of China, based on information provided by the Jesuit missionary, Martino Martini (1614-1661) to Blaeu. The map extends from Shanghai in the north and to Pingyang in the south. Chekiang is present day Zhejiang.
Martini’s most important work is Novus Atlas Sinensis, which appeared as part of volume 10 of Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior (Amsterdam 1655). This work, a folio with 17 maps and 171 pages of text was, the most complete geographical description of China at the time.
From the Latin edition of Blaeu’s, Novus atlas sinensis a Martino Martinus, Soc. Iesu
Reference: Koeman Vol I, BI 54, p.196-7, 132 [428] French text.
Mapmaker:
Martino Martini (1614-1661)
Martino Martini, Wei Kuangguo his Chinese name, was a Jesuit missionary and a distinguished scientist – mathematician, historian and cartographer – who lived and worked in China in the 1600s.
He set out for China in 1640, and arrived in Portuguese Macau in 1642 where he studied Chinese for some time. In 1643 he crossed the border and settled in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, from where he did much traveling in view of gathering scientific information, especially on the geography of the Chinese empire: he visited several provinces, as well as Peking and the Great Wall. He made great use of his talents as missionary, scholar, writer and superior.
In 1651 Martini left China for Rome as the Delegate of the Chinese Mission Superior, returning in 1658, after a most difficult journey. He was again involved in pastoral and missionary activities in the Hangzhou area where he built a three naves church that was considered to be one of the most beautiful of the country (1659–61).
He died of cholera in 1661.
