Oxford. Bodleian Library, Now at the Ashmolean, formerly Douce Portfolio 142(92)

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Bodleian Library

Shelfmark

• Bodleian Library Now at the Ashmolean, formerly Douce Portfolio 142(92)

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q213170

Date

• ca.1590

Language

• Latin

Title

• [Fool's Cap Map of the World]

Description

• A fool or jester with a world map in place of his face.
  World map on the cordiform projection, within the visor of a fool's cap; Antwerp? c 1590? The identities of the designer and engraver map one day be deciphered among the Latin drolleries that festoon the plate. They clearly imply that the map represents "this great stage of fool".

Rights

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.

Digitisation

• https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/782ae4e3-b9a8-4594-8907-ad5b144fae5d

Manifest URL

• https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/782ae4e3-b9a8-4594-8907-ad5b144fae5d.json