Map of the world, 1508

The oldest published document related to Canada in the collection of the National Archives of Canada. What was known about Canada appears just left of centre, near the top, under the word GRVENLANTENS (Greenland). The map shows Newfoundland (Terra Nova) and the adjacent islands.

Published in Geographia by Ptolemy in Rome in 1508.

Catalogue entry:
Ptolemaeus, Claudius.
Vniversalior cogniti orbis tabula ex recentibus confecta observationibus. — Scale [ca. 1:55 000 000 at pole]. — Rome : [Impressum per Bernardu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus, expe[n]sis Eva[n]gelista Tosino Brixiano Bibliopola], 1508. — 1 map : 41 x 55 cm, on sheet 42 x 58 cm. — In In hoc opere haec continentvr geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[u]e linguae doctiss. —

Ref. No.: NMC 019268