Teixeira planisphere

The Planisphere of Domingos Teixeira is a hand-painted parchment map of the world made by a Portuguese cartographer in 1573, during the reign of Sebastian of Portugal. It is conserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Datasheet

Date: 1573
Author: Domingos Teixeira.
Cartographic School: Portuguese.
Brief description: World Map.
Physical Location: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Description

It is one of the first full world maps showing the spice routes, both the Portuguese route of Vasco da Gama, following the east route and the Spanish route towards the west, discovered by Ferdinand Magellan and at the opposite side of the world at the Philippines, that according to the treaty of Zaragoza should belong to Portugal, as they are in the "Portuguese" hemisphere.