Article ID: CBB297738892

Is This the Original? A Manuscript Map of the Mexico Valley by Adrián Boot (2016)

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In recent years, the Map Department of the National Library of Hungary has been compiling a comprehensive and annotated catalogue of the several thousand map items originally assembled by Count Ferenc Széchényi (1754‒1820) that constitutes its founding collection. In the process, sometime in 2012, I reviewed the description of a manuscript map of the Valley of Mexico which was, as its title claims, made by Adrián Boot (?‒1646) (Fig. 1, Plate 12).1 Further investigation suggested that this manuscript has an important place in the map-making history of the Valley of Mexico, an impression confirmed when its content proved to match closely that of the printed map of the same region made by Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Carreri (1651‒1725) and reported by Priscilla Connolly and Roberto Mayer in Imago Mundi in 2009. The content of the small manuscript is confined to the hydrographic system of the Valley of Mexico, to lakes, rivers and creeks along with some fifty settlement names and signs and three Spanish words (calzada, desagu, lumbreras), which might relate to the aim of the map.3 Three circles can be seen in two large southern lakes, which are labelled with the Spanish word Penol, perhaps to identify small barren islets or cliffs. Finally, a short inscription at the bottom right corner, Volcan de Fueg, may refer to an active volcano in the vicinity. At the bottom, the title of the map gives the name of the author: Regionis circa lacum MEXICANVM descriptio facta ab Adriano Boot Arch. militari et ad negotium aqvarum deducendarum deputato [Description of the region around the Mexico lake made by Adrián Boot, a military engineer commissioned [to carry out the] reclamation works].

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Authors & Contributors
DeShong, Rachel
Guido Rosada
Šolar, Renata
Rathmann, Michael
Luciano Bosio
Wilson, Sierra M.
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Geography
Manuscripts
Roman Empire
Cross-national comparison
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17th century
16th century
18th century
Renaissance
Medieval
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Europe
Germany
Saxony
England
Switzerland
Italy
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Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Dutch East India Company
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