ID: 700008634 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008634	Record Type: Movable Work
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Constantinopolis (map (document); Cristoforo Buondelmonte, cartographer; designed 1422, published 1466; Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, Île-de-France...; FRBNF40771996: f.37v; )

Note: Thought to be oldest surviving map of the city of Constantinople, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453.

Titles:

Constantinopolis (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Constantinople (C,U,English,U,U,French,U,U)

Constantinopolis civitas (C,U,IN,undetermined,U,U)

Map of Constantinople (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Pianta di Costantinopoli (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Karte von Konstantinopel (C,U,DE,German,U,U)

Catalog Level: component

Work Types:

map (document) [300028094] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>, graphic document genres, cartographic materials)

manuscript map [300028461]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>, graphic document genres, cartographic materials, maps (documents), <maps by production method>)

Classifications:

geography (preferred)

Creation Date: designed 1422, published 1466

Creator Display:

Cristoforo Buondelmonte, cartographer [preferred,VP]

creator Buondelmonti, Cristoforo (Italian cartographer, priest, ca. 1375-ca. 1435) [500315121]

Locations:

Current: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, Île-de-France, France) [500309981] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: FRBNF40771996: f.37v

Display Materials: ink on paper, gouache

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

Dimensions: 29 x 21 cm

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

cartographic (preferred)

cityscapes

Specific Subjects:

	Constantinople [7002473]
	.....(İstanbul (province), Turkey (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Liber Insularum Archipelagi

Additional Notes:

French ..... D'après C. Barsanti, le contenu du plan de Constantinople comporte des éléments postérieurs à 1443.

Italian ..... Dal 1414 al 1430 Buondelmonti si recò nei luoghi più importanti della civiltà greca attraversando il mar Egeo e visitando Rodi, Creta, Cipro, l’Ellesponto, Costantinopoli. Il frutto di questi lunghi viaggi furono due opere di contenuto storico-geografico: la Descriptio insulae Cretae fatta arrivare a Firenze nel 1417 a Niccolò Niccolie il Liber insularum Archipelagi (1420) con una dedica al cardinale Giordano Orsini. L’opera, riscritta per quattro volte, (l’edizione definitiva è del 1430) ebbe grande diffusione e fu riportata negli isolari illustrati come quelli di Henricus Martellus, di Bartolomeo de li Sonetti e di Benedetto Bordone (1460–1531). Con queste opere Buondelmonti fondò il nuovo genere letterario degli isolari, un nuovo linguaggio rinascimentale che rappresentava lo spazio fondendo la simbologia delle carte nautiche con la descrizione corografica ed assieme storica dei luoghi visitati.

Sources and Contributors:
Constantinopolis	........ [VP]
	........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-) http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40771996q
Constantinople	........ [VP]
	........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Constantinopolis civitas	........ [VP]
	........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Map of Constantinople	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-)
Pianta di Costantinopoli	........ [VP]
	........ Lega italica 1454 [online] (2000-) https://legaitalica1454.org/2015/03/01/pianta-di-costantinopoli-1422-cristoforo-buondelmonti-1386-1430-bnf-parigi/
Karte von Konstantinopel	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
French	..... [VP]
	..... Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Italian	..... [VP]
	..... Lega italica 1454 [online] (2000-) https://legaitalica1454.org/2015/03/01/pianta-di-costantinopoli-1422-cristoforo-buondelmonti-1386-1430-bnf-parigi/