Mauritiana 5, het vijfde deel van de tweetalige serie catalogi in Nederlands en Portugees,is het ... more Mauritiana 5, het vijfde deel van de tweetalige serie catalogi in Nederlands en Portugees,is het resultaat van de samenwerking van Braziliaanse en Nederlandse instanties die beiden als doelstelling hebben de Nederlandse archieven betreffende Nederlands Brazilië in de zeventiende eeuw voor onderzoekers toegankelijk te maken. De geschiedenis van Nederlands Brazilië betrof maar een korte periode, namelijk van 1624 tot en met 1654, maar de voorbereidingen tot dit veroveringsproject en de politieke en financiële nasleep, na de verdrijving van de Nederlanders in 1654, bedroegen meer dan een eeuw.9789400601482 (eisbn)Wetensch. publicati
In 2015 Leiden University Libraries organised a crowdsourcing project on map georeferencing, call... more In 2015 Leiden University Libraries organised a crowdsourcing project on map georeferencing, called Maps in the Crowd. This pilot can be seen as part of a broader investigation how to catalogue a cartographic collection in a geographical way. Next to a geographical access to digitised old maps by georeferencing the scanned images, a map library has to deal with the facilitation of born-digital geodatasets, the presentation of its collections on various platforms and the sharing of digital maps and geodata with other institutions. In this paper the process, quality and results of the georeferencing project will be evaluated and analysed. Among others, the following questions will be answered. Who is the crowd? How accurate are the georeferences done by that crowd? How efficient and useful is the reviewing process? How accurate are the maps? Is it useful to georeference all maps? Are all maps 'georeferencable'? Finally, the future steps of the geographical cataloguing of Leide...
Since the foundation of Leiden University in 1575 much attention was paid on Oriental cultures. N... more Since the foundation of Leiden University in 1575 much attention was paid on Oriental cultures. Nowadays, vast collections on the South-, East- and Southeast-Asia are kept in the collections of Leiden University Libraries. An important, and for sure an attractive, part of these collections consists of cartographic material. On the one hand these are European, especially Dutch, products, largely made by the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and later by the Topographic Service in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies. On the other hand, documents and maps of oriental origin were collected by scholars in Leiden. In this paper the role of Leiden, and Leiden University in particular, in the production, trade, consumption and preservation of Asian cartography is examined.
in the two case studies that make up chapters four and five. These are the best sections of the b... more in the two case studies that make up chapters four and five. These are the best sections of the book. Visscher was a paid employee of the West India Company from the time of its first successful campaign in 1624 and remained the Company’s spin doctor until he was replaced by Joan Blaeu around 1637. He continued to make Atlantic representations of possession and profit until his death in 1652. Visscher’s maps, mainly but not exclusively news maps, were influential in disseminating and occasionally manipulating knowledge of Dutch Atlantic expansion. Sutton deftly places Visscher’s output in the broader media landscape of the time that also included pamphlets, learned treatises and writings on political theory. The chapter on Dutch Brazil explores how Visscher carefully designed a corporate rhetoric of possession and stability in the context of the war with Habsburg Spain. The next chapter, on New Amsterdam, deals with creating a visual narrative of economic and administrative success ...
compact and maps were not primarily produced for wayfinding; they were made to accompany books, f... more compact and maps were not primarily produced for wayfinding; they were made to accompany books, for display and to be consulted by readers in their homes. Because of its economic importance, Exeter was mapped earlier and more frequently than many other towns: London and Norwich were first mapped in the late 1550s, Cambridge in 1574, and then Exeter in 1587. The ‘seven maps’ of Exeter are all original surveys, and for each of them Oliver and Kain talk about the mapmaker, explore why the map might have been made, describe which features are shown and how, and discuss the later maps that stem from the original. The first two pre-date Birchynshaw, first John Hooker’s map of 1587, with copies and derivatives being made for more than a century up to Philip Lea’s version of about 1689. A few years after Lea, Ichabod Fairlove resurveyed Exeter in 1709 and produced the first map of the city drawn to a consistent scale. Then attention turns to Birchynshaw’s map itself. The sheet poses several...
The Trekvliet canal and the pall-mall at Leiden Pall-mall was a popular lawn game in the 17th cen... more The Trekvliet canal and the pall-mall at Leiden Pall-mall was a popular lawn game in the 17th century. The oldest pall-mall in the Netherlands was built in The Hague in 1606. Leiden was one of the universities with such a facility. In 1581, Leiden University already had several courts for ball sports. Some manuscript maps show their locations outside the city walls. The building of a pall-mall in Leiden coincided with the digging of the canal for horse-drawn boats to The Hague and Delft. The first plans for a boat canal probably date from around 1633 and the canal was completed in 1637. Alongside, between the boat canal and the Leiden city walls, a pall-mall was built, about 700 meters in length. The university bought some plots of land from the Leiden orphanage, on which the lawn was built. The history of the building of the boat canal and pall-mall is documented in several property maps and town plans that have survived. In the university’s archive, a concept of regulations of the...
Mauritiana 5, het vijfde deel van de tweetalige serie catalogi in Nederlands en Portugees,is het ... more Mauritiana 5, het vijfde deel van de tweetalige serie catalogi in Nederlands en Portugees,is het resultaat van de samenwerking van Braziliaanse en Nederlandse instanties die beiden als doelstelling hebben de Nederlandse archieven betreffende Nederlands Brazilië in de zeventiende eeuw voor onderzoekers toegankelijk te maken. De geschiedenis van Nederlands Brazilië betrof maar een korte periode, namelijk van 1624 tot en met 1654, maar de voorbereidingen tot dit veroveringsproject en de politieke en financiële nasleep, na de verdrijving van de Nederlanders in 1654, bedroegen meer dan een eeuw.9789400601482 (eisbn)Wetensch. publicati
In 2015 Leiden University Libraries organised a crowdsourcing project on map georeferencing, call... more In 2015 Leiden University Libraries organised a crowdsourcing project on map georeferencing, called Maps in the Crowd. This pilot can be seen as part of a broader investigation how to catalogue a cartographic collection in a geographical way. Next to a geographical access to digitised old maps by georeferencing the scanned images, a map library has to deal with the facilitation of born-digital geodatasets, the presentation of its collections on various platforms and the sharing of digital maps and geodata with other institutions. In this paper the process, quality and results of the georeferencing project will be evaluated and analysed. Among others, the following questions will be answered. Who is the crowd? How accurate are the georeferences done by that crowd? How efficient and useful is the reviewing process? How accurate are the maps? Is it useful to georeference all maps? Are all maps 'georeferencable'? Finally, the future steps of the geographical cataloguing of Leide...
Since the foundation of Leiden University in 1575 much attention was paid on Oriental cultures. N... more Since the foundation of Leiden University in 1575 much attention was paid on Oriental cultures. Nowadays, vast collections on the South-, East- and Southeast-Asia are kept in the collections of Leiden University Libraries. An important, and for sure an attractive, part of these collections consists of cartographic material. On the one hand these are European, especially Dutch, products, largely made by the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and later by the Topographic Service in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies. On the other hand, documents and maps of oriental origin were collected by scholars in Leiden. In this paper the role of Leiden, and Leiden University in particular, in the production, trade, consumption and preservation of Asian cartography is examined.
in the two case studies that make up chapters four and five. These are the best sections of the b... more in the two case studies that make up chapters four and five. These are the best sections of the book. Visscher was a paid employee of the West India Company from the time of its first successful campaign in 1624 and remained the Company’s spin doctor until he was replaced by Joan Blaeu around 1637. He continued to make Atlantic representations of possession and profit until his death in 1652. Visscher’s maps, mainly but not exclusively news maps, were influential in disseminating and occasionally manipulating knowledge of Dutch Atlantic expansion. Sutton deftly places Visscher’s output in the broader media landscape of the time that also included pamphlets, learned treatises and writings on political theory. The chapter on Dutch Brazil explores how Visscher carefully designed a corporate rhetoric of possession and stability in the context of the war with Habsburg Spain. The next chapter, on New Amsterdam, deals with creating a visual narrative of economic and administrative success ...
compact and maps were not primarily produced for wayfinding; they were made to accompany books, f... more compact and maps were not primarily produced for wayfinding; they were made to accompany books, for display and to be consulted by readers in their homes. Because of its economic importance, Exeter was mapped earlier and more frequently than many other towns: London and Norwich were first mapped in the late 1550s, Cambridge in 1574, and then Exeter in 1587. The ‘seven maps’ of Exeter are all original surveys, and for each of them Oliver and Kain talk about the mapmaker, explore why the map might have been made, describe which features are shown and how, and discuss the later maps that stem from the original. The first two pre-date Birchynshaw, first John Hooker’s map of 1587, with copies and derivatives being made for more than a century up to Philip Lea’s version of about 1689. A few years after Lea, Ichabod Fairlove resurveyed Exeter in 1709 and produced the first map of the city drawn to a consistent scale. Then attention turns to Birchynshaw’s map itself. The sheet poses several...
The Trekvliet canal and the pall-mall at Leiden Pall-mall was a popular lawn game in the 17th cen... more The Trekvliet canal and the pall-mall at Leiden Pall-mall was a popular lawn game in the 17th century. The oldest pall-mall in the Netherlands was built in The Hague in 1606. Leiden was one of the universities with such a facility. In 1581, Leiden University already had several courts for ball sports. Some manuscript maps show their locations outside the city walls. The building of a pall-mall in Leiden coincided with the digging of the canal for horse-drawn boats to The Hague and Delft. The first plans for a boat canal probably date from around 1633 and the canal was completed in 1637. Alongside, between the boat canal and the Leiden city walls, a pall-mall was built, about 700 meters in length. The university bought some plots of land from the Leiden orphanage, on which the lawn was built. The history of the building of the boat canal and pall-mall is documented in several property maps and town plans that have survived. In the university’s archive, a concept of regulations of the...
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