Carta marina - a map of Scandinavia (and Scotland) printed in 1539 in Venice

[Dale-of-Cedars]

See the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina for the hi-res scan of the map.

In the lower-left is shown part of Britain; the Scotie Pars (Scottish Part) showing the Scottish king with the motto: "Esto fidelis usque ad mortem"(Be faithful unto death), and the Angles Pars (English Part) where the king's motto seems to be something about 'mercy to slaves'. Also noted are the "Calidonia Silva" (Caledonia Forest) and "Scotie Metropolis S. Adreas" (Scottish city St Andrews.)

Plus a lot of glorious whales, sea-monsters and terrors: Balina, Orcha, Verma, "hec est horrenda caribdis" (Horrible Charybdis the whirlpool).

It pays magnification and close examination.

[Hopper250]

This is great. I love the merges on the old maps.

[tulloch]

Very nice. Fascinating and beautiful.

[Hopper250]

Angles Pars (English Part) where the king's motto seems to be something about 'mercy to slaves'.

Google gives the Latin as "must pity the servants' s caskets" provided I read the latin correctly as "oportet misereri con servi svi matis"

Since modern Italian comes out to "oportet misereri with servants develop matis" I thought I'd try the Latin.

[James Hood]

Might this map have any origin in Nicolo Zolo's earlier one (ca 1400)?

If memory serves, varied Italian navigators were interested in trading with the north, but the Hanseatics were far from welcoming of Mediterraneans in "their" water.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Might this map have any origin in Nicolo Zolo's earlier one (ca 1400)?

If memory serves, varied Italian navigators were interested in trading with the north, but the Hanseatics were far from welcoming of Mediterraneans in "their" water.

I think you've accidentally conflated Zolo with Zeno; the mapmakering Venetian Zeno family and the 21th century proponent of their discovery of North America in Laura Zolo.