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>From the MapRoom blog http://www.maproomblog.com/2011/05/map_of_magellans_voyage_discovered.php "An item on Australian current affairs program 7.30 about the discovery by map dealer Frederik Muller of a 16th-century map describing Magellan's voyages: Lorenz Fries's Tabula moderna alterius hemispherius. Muller is giving a presentation on the Fries map at Southern Latitudes, the annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, this week." http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3225919.htm http://www.frederikmuller-rarebooks.com/ http://www.anzmaps.org/conferences/southern-latitudes-2011-anzmaps-conference/ Yesterday's interview with the excited Dutch map dealer, Frederik Muller and Maggie Patton, Map Curator of the New South Wales Library, Sydney includes the following selected passages. [The presenter's introductory comment, that 'it was made by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe', is misleading]. 'Two years ago there was a remarkable discovery in a pile of old maps in South America. Hidden among them was a 500-year-old treasure: the oldest known map of the Pacific Ocean ... FREDERIK MULLER: I thought it was a nice map, an interesting map, but I didn't see immediately how important it was. It takes a while for a real find to sink in, and for quite a while I've been my own devil's advocate and said, "Well, this must be a fake." REBECCA BAILLIE: For the past two years, Frederik Muller has forensically established the map's authenticity. He is now certain that European map-maker Lorenz Fries hand drew it in Strasbourg in 1525, just after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world ... REBECCA BAILLIE: Map buffs are enthralled by the 500-year-old treasure, and it's hoped that it may yet end up in the New South Wales State Library's collection. That is, if the library can come up with the estimated price tag of more than $1.3 million.' The ABC webpage links to a five-minute video [whose sound I did not manage to hear]. This includes tracking shots across the map, whose style is clearly similar to those in the printed Ptolemy of that time. It would be interesting to learn more about the forensic tests as well as the comments of any experts who have examined the map. Perhaps these will be described in Muller's conference paper. Tony Campbell [email protected]
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