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[email protected] wrote:
This week's Timess Higher Education, p.12, report on rare seaport
maps, Brazil and India, one map ilustrated..
Dr Hillary Shaw,
Business Managment and Marketing Department,
Harper Adams University College,
Newport
Shropshire,
TF10 8NB
www.fooddeserts.org <http://www.fooddeserts.org>
Perhaps this is a different article:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407828&c=1
. The story line involves two manuscript atlases. It brings together a
past student at the London Rare Book School's map history course and
collections assistant at the University of Oxford, Veronika Vernier, and
the University of Oxford's Map Librarian, Nick Millea:
"...Although they had been listed in 1816 and even had an earlier
shelf mark, no further details were available. The titles seemed to
be in Portuguese, a fact confirmed by a Brazilian butler in the
senior common room, so Ms Vernier began investigating the
cartographer, Joao Teixeira.
When her search led her to an antique map dealer offering a single
copperplate sheet by the cartographer as a "scarce map that seldom
appears for sale", it was clear that the Queen's manuscript atlases
- containing 16 and 23 maps - were something special. She consulted
Nick Millea, map librarian at the Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford, who directed her to a six-volume "bible" of Portuguese
cartography..."
The online piece was not illustrated, and did not deal with Brazil, so
it may be different than the one mentioned by Hillary Shaw.
Joel Kovarsky
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