La Grande Tartarie (Great Tartary), in L’Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, 1652
La Grande Tartarie : Par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe du Roy. Avec privilege pour 20 Ans. 1652. A. Peyrounin Sculp. (to accompany) L'Asie en plvsievrs cartes novvelles, et exactes ... A Paris, Chez l'Autheur.
Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (engraved by A. Peyrounin)
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
Compilation: Sanson's systematic regional division of Tartary into named Tartar peoples from written sources (Jesuit relations, Ptolemaic and Arab geographers); no observation.
Research notes
- Compiled; later Sanson states (1659 Boisseau, 1699 Description de la Tartarie, 1732 du Sauzet, 1708 Jaillot Carte Nouvelle) are copies or enlargements of this design, not independent witnesses.
- Rumsey note: Copper engraved double page map, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche. Covers Asia, north of India to the Arctic Ocean. Showing boundaries, regions occupied by Tatar tribes, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Why it matters
Sanson's 1652 map is the source of the French 'Grande Tartarie' with its internal subdivisions (Tartarie Deserte, Turquestan, Mogolie, Tartarie Chinoise) that Jaillot, Du Val, Chatelain and De Fer copied for sixty years and that the New Chronology literature cites; the Rumsey note confirms it shows 'regions occupied by Tatar tribes'.
Places named
Great Tartary from the Volga to the Pacific; Tartarie Deserte; Turquestan; Zagatay; Mogolie; Tartarie Chinoise / Cathay; Kalmouks; Samoyedes
Who copied whom
- Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie M053, 1690sdrawn from this one (stated)Jaillot after Sanson 1652
- drawn from this one (stated)Cantelli from Sanson 1652 plus Jesuit relations
Keep exploring
The maps drawn just before and just after this one.
