PARIS ÎLE-DE-FRANCE FRANCE 1643 MONTECALIERO UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

Provincia Parisiensis Cum confinijs.

Description: Striking and highly detailed unusual copper engraved map of the French region of Íle-de-France. The map is centered on Paris. The map is filled with good topographic details on cities, rivers, forests. A strapwork title & mileage cartouche embellished with cherubs and a compass rose adorn the map.

The map taken from the "Chorographica Descriptio Provinciarum et Conventum", an Atlas of the order of the Capuchin friars. The atlas of the Capuchin provinces had been initiated in manuscript form by the Minister General of the Order, Father Silvestro da Panicale in 1632 and was to serve as a geographical aid for general visits. At his death the successor Father Giovanni di Montecaliero, to whom the authorship of the cards is often erroneously attributed, commissioned Fr. Massimino da Guechen to continue the work. The engravers of the slabs were precisely Massimino da Guechen, Bernardino Burdigalensis and Ludovico Monteregali. The first edition was printed in Rome in 1643, the second in Turin in 1649 and then in 1654 and finally another came out in 1712. By convention we attribute the maps to Montecalerio. The work visually showed the spread of the order, in fact the different maps of the atlas, representing nations and provinces, offer for each of them the complete statistics of the convents.

Date: 1643 ( undated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 38,4 x 27,8

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Paper with foxing and browning. Small holes along left lateral margin due to the binding. Conditions are as you can see in the images.