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1732 / 1735 Müller Map of Crete, Greece
Crete-muller-1735$275.00
Title
Candia.
1735 (dated) 5.75 x 7 in (14.605 x 17.78 cm) 1 : 690000
1735 (dated) 5.75 x 7 in (14.605 x 17.78 cm) 1 : 690000
Description
This is a 1732 map of Crete, appearing in the printed pilgrimage of the Bohemian monk and traveler Angelikus Maria Müller. This north-oriented map illustrates the island's topography pictorially and dramatically. The map is strikingly engraved and embellished with fine ships.
A Closer Look
The map's engraving (by a 'Müller' although probably unrelated to the author) is clear and neat, with pictorial mountains, hachured coastlines, and evocative decorative elements. As with the map's precursors, it includes the Labyrinth of Daedalus: the legendary maze built for King Minos to contain the bull-headed Minotaur. While the travelogue it appeared in was notable and current, the object of the present map was to illustrate the text attractively rather than to present the state-of-the-art. The cartography here is derived from Matteo Pagano's 1538 map. Perhaps governed by the format of the pages available, the island is presented squashed along its east-west axis.Publication History and Census
The map was engraved for inclusion in the fifth volume of the first edition of Müller's Peregrinus in Jerusalem, published in 1732. Examples of that edition display the pagination within the plate at the upper left corner. The present example corresponds to the second (final) edition of 1735, with the old page number partially burnished out, and the new plate number added outside the border at the upper right. The 1735 edition of the book is well-represented in institutional collections. The separate map is cataloged only by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the Universitatsbibliothek Eichstatt, although it has appeared on the market occasionally, generally with wildly inaccurate and conjectural dating.CartographerS
Angelikus Maria Müller or Myller (???? - 1734) was a Bohemian friar, author and traveler. Virtually nothing is known about his life, except that he was a friar of the Order of the Servants of Mary (the Servites.) He emerges from obscurity with the published account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Peregrinus in Jerusalem. The 1725-1727 journey took him from the Italian port of Livorno to Palestine, Troy, Gallipoli, Constantinople, Egypt, Syria and back to Rome. Müller's pilgrimage made him valuable both to his order and to the Habsburg monarchy. In 1733 he was appointed theologian for the imperial ambassador to London, Count Philip Joseph Kinsky. Such a poilitical appointment was very unusual for a Servite friar: typically their service was in rural monasteries or pilgrim sites. Unfortunately, he was plagued by ill health, and this caught up with him in London, where he died in 1734. His work is the longest early-modern pilgrimage account written by a Bohemian (the work was written, in German, in Prague.) The first volume of the work was published in Prague in 1729; later volumes appeared there in 1732. A futher edition was published posthumously, in Vienna and Nuremberg, in 1735. More by this mapmaker...
Matteo Pagano (1515-1588) was a Venetian woodcut artist and illustrator. While nothing is known about his early training, he was prolific and apparently successful. Among his more famous works is a 1556 eight-sheet woodcut of the procession of the Doge, in Venice. He produced a number of maps for various works, most notably the visually distinctive area maps appearing in Ramusio's Navigazioni et Viaggi. He is particularly noted for having published books of lace, needlework and embroidery designs, promoting needlework as an acceptable activity for virtuous women. Learn More...
Source
Müller, A. M., Peregrinus in Jerusalem, (Vienna: Monath) 1735.
Condition
Excellent. Trimmed close but borders complete.
References
OCLC 644307009. Zacharakis, C. G., A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 1477-1800 2461.