Chart of the islands of Molucca including Pulongha, Tadore, Mare, Mutir, and Machiam with the scroll: Cave gomode, that is, the Clove tree

Title

Chart of the islands of Molucca including Pulongha, Tadore, Mare, Mutir, and Machiam with the scroll: Cave gomode, that is, the Clove tree

Subject

The Clove Tree represented in a labeled map of the Molucca Islands

Description

Illustration of the Clove tree on a map of the Molucca Islands. The map originally appeared in the Beinecke manuscript with other illustrated maps of the Spice Islands.

Creator

Pigafetta, Antonio

Source

The Beinecke Manuscript
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Publisher

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1907

Date

1480-1534

Contributor

Timothy Kelly

Rights

Expired Copyright, work published in 1907

Relation

[no text]

Format

Manuscript is bound in gold-tooled red goatskin, map produced on parchment

Language

Italian

Type

A first hand account from a survivor of the Magellan voyages to the Spice Islands

Identifier

[no text]

Coverage

[no text]

Original Format

Painting of Malucca Islands and Clove Tree in Beinecke Manuscript

Physical Dimensions

manuscript page size: 276mm x 184mm

Files

Antonio Pigafetta, Malucca Islands Map, Beinecke Manuscript.jpg

Citation

Pigafetta, Antonio, “Chart of the islands of Molucca including Pulongha, Tadore, Mare, Mutir, and Machiam with the scroll: Cave gomode, that is, the Clove tree,” Food origins, accessed March 29, 2024, https://tenochtitlan.omeka.net/items/show/74.