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Identifier
metapth252089
Description
While the famed Venetian cartographer and Minorite friar Vincenzo Coronelli spent time in France as cartographer and globe-maker to Louis XIV, he was able to compile valuable geographic knowledge about New Spain’s interior provinces. One of his most important sources was a manuscript map drawn by Abbé Claude Bernou based upon information from a former governor of New Mexico (1661-1664), the selfproclaimed Comte, don Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo (1621-1687). Peñalosa had been banished by the Inquisition for alleged misdeeds and had traveled to London and by 1678 was in France, where he offered his services to the French. Tillemon’s and Coronelli’s maps as published by Jean-Baptiste Nolin not only spread knowledge of many place names for the first time, such as “el Passo” (modern Juarez, Mexico), they also showed that the “Rio del Norte” and “Rio Bravo” were one and the same. One particularly interesting toponym near the “Moqui Peuples” (Hopi people) is the town or village of “Santa Fé de Peñalossa” – apparently a fabrication.
Archival Date
1687
Location
114/5
Collection Name
Cartographic Connections
Collection Number
83-151
Publisher
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Original Format
Map
File Format
JPG
Rights
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Subjects
New France , Canada, California Island; New Spain
Item Type
image
Names
du Tralage, Jean-Nicolas (1620-1699); Coronelli, Father Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718); Guerard, Nicolas (1648-1719)
Subjects
New France , Canada, California Island; New Spain