Haec maxima dona Vigescund S. Salvator

Title

Haec maxima dona Vigescund S. Salvator

Description

Map shows the cityand the harbour of San Salvador deBahia in Brasil, with decorativ ship representation .

ca. 1678

Artist

Meissner (1585-1625)

Daniel Meisner, also known as Meissner or Meißner, was born in 1585 in Komatau, Bohemia and died on 11 March 1625 in Frankfurt am Main. He was a German poet and engraver and co-author of the Thesaurus Philopoliticus or Political Treasury, which was first published in 1623 under the name Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. This is: Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren unnd bestendiger Freund with 52 views was published by Eberhard Kieser (Frankfurt, 1583-1631), followed by the second edition in 1624-31 with 416 views and finally in 1638-43 with the new title Sciographia cosmica the last edition by Paulus Fürst (Nuremberg, 1608-66) with about 830 views and moralising sayings in Latin and German.

Historical Description

Bahia in Brazil: The indigenous population of Brazil comprises a multitude of different ethnic groups who inhabited the area of what is now Brazil even before the Portuguese conquered it in 1500. Brazil is the country with the most uncontacted tribes in the world. As early as 1494, Portugal and Spain decided to divide South America in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Because the line had been agreed in ignorance of the coastline of the New World, the eastern tip of South America (still generally unknown at the time) also belonged to Portugal's territory. The prerequisite for legitimate occupation was the consistent catholization of the locals. The period from 1500 to 1530 was characterized by bartering with the locals.