Collection search - O caput elleboro dignum [Fool's cap map of the world] [Monde dans une tête de fou] [cartographic material]

Notes from former database : "The map is based on Ortelius' map of the world of 1587 (c.1590 as it follows Ortelius' later plate of 1587). Latin sayings adorn the map and the plate but give no indication as to author or date."
"There is a rare earlier woodcut by Jean de Gourmont of similar design in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des estampes, Faceties et pièces de bouffonerie, Vol.1, T.f.1-Rés."
Coverdale Collection (Manoir Richelieu), no. 1561, c42057.

Anne S. Chapple, "Robert Burton's Geography of Melancholy, Studies in English Litterature, 1500-1900, Winter 1993, vol. 33, no. 1, The English Renaissance, p. 99-130.

Ange Aniesa, "Monde dans une tête de fou", Les pépites de la BNF-Gallica, Historia, 24 avril 2019.

Reproduced on the cover of Stephanie Hoppen and Catherine Slowther, Cartographica Curiosa 2, London, England, 1982 (catalogue from Stephanie Hoppen, Rare Books & Maps, London).

Rodney Shirley, The Map Collector, June 1981, no. 12, p. 47.

R.V. Tooley, "Geographical Oddities" in Map Collectors' Series, London, Map Collectors' Circle, 1963, no. 1, pl. XX.

Microfiche: NMC8136., 42057

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