Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "cj82kr907",
    "label": "Africae nova descriptio",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "map",
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cj82kr907"
}

{
    "id": "cj82kr907",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cj82kr907",
    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Africae nova descriptio",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"1630\"]",
    "year": 1630,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cj82kr907",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_009510",
    "creators": [
        "Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Africa"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Maps"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
        "Cartographic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Acj82kr91h",
    "iiifManifest": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cj82kr907/manifest",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/images/commonwealth:cj82kr91h/image_thumbnail_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Acj82kr91h/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "Amsterdam",
    "publisher": "Guiljelmo Blaeuw"
}

{
    "url": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cj82kr907",
    "institutionArkId": "sf268508b",
    "collectionArkId": "41688024w",
    "schema:latitude": 2.383,
    "schema:longitude": 16.066,
    "extent": "1 map ; 36 x 45 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Includes decorative border with nine city views and ten illustrations of figures in regional dress.",
        "\"Cum privilegio ad decennium.\"",
        "Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.",
        "Part of composite portfolio atlas with title \"Collection of old maps.\""
    ],
    "hasTranscription": false,
    "dcId": "cj82kr907",
    "type": "map"
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Acj82kr91h/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e7f304faa4c22c34"
}