Report being 'Translation of a paper communicated By Mr Stuartto Lord Hobart relative to the Map now existing in the Churchof St Michael di Murano at Venice', ca 1804 (Series 85.01) - No. 0011

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Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen N. 129. 1804
(respecting Cardinal Borgia's Planiglobe)

This remarkable monument is not a map drawn with a pen, but a round plate of about two feet in diameter, on which is represented, by means of party coloured email enamels, the hemisphere of the earth, as far these as it was then known, in the form of a round circular plane. The countries & places are only marked with their names, without the addition of the boundaries to the former: there are represented on it the mountains, rivers, people and all sort of remarkable things, such as animals, battles, caravans, slave markets, camps of nomadic peop nations, etc and explained by inscriptions in Latin, but in German handwriting. This interesting monument which at the same time even betrays exhibits not a common degree of art, can scarcely have been executed for the use of a private individual. Though it is without a date, its antiquity can so far be stated with certainty that it was made in the first half of the 15th Century: among the events recorded the most modern is the victory of Timur over Bajazet 1402; but there is no mention made of the siege of Constantinople, nor the least trace of the Portuguese discoveries. Of all the known maps of the world only that of Marino Sanudo [Marino Sanuto the Elder], at the beginning of the 14th century, is