The Catholic regions of the world
Repraesentatio Totius Orbis Terraquei cuius partes, quae Umbra Carent, fide Catholica Imbutae sunt, relinquae omnes Inumbratae Religionis Catholicae Expertes Sunt.
Munich, c.1700. Coloured. 240 x 355mm.
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A map showing the world in a single hemisphere, depicting those parts of the world that Catholic missionaries had reached. California is shown as an Island. Nova Hollandia ( Australia) is now clearly separated from Nova Guinea, although without a Southern Coastline. Northwest and Northeast passages are shown
It is decorated with vignettes of a ship crossing the ocean, Christ with a cross and herdsmen separating the sheep from the goats (an allegory of Christian missionaries), with the goats entering the mouth of a monster.











