Nova Virginiae Tabula

Date1634

Maker Petrus Kaerius

Publisher Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664)

OriginEurope, Netherlands, Amsterdam

MediumBlack and white line engraving with period color

DimensionsOH: 6 7/16" x OW: 8 3/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2017-42

DescriptionUpper margin reads: "VIRGINIA ET FLORIDA./ 639"
Cartouche reads: "NOVA/ VIRGINIAE/ TABULA/ Petrus Kaerius/ Caelavit./ Miliaria Germanica com 15 pro uno gra."
Key reads: "Notarum/ explicatio/ Domus Regum/ Ordinariae Domus/ Lucubrationes/ Anglorum."
Lower left corner: "MARE/ VIRGINICUM"
Label TextFrom Gerard Mercator, ' Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatoris à I. Hondio plurimis æneis tabulis auctus et illustratus: denuo recognit, additisque novis delineationibus emendatus' (Amsterodami: Ex officina Ioannis Ianssonii, 1734).

This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), pp. 41, #33.