Uncommon miniature map of Africa, an amalgam of the geography of Ortelius and Mercator, but modified to include details from Jan Huygen van Linschoten's recentl-acquired Portuguese maps and from Arabic maps by Al-Idrisi first published in Europe in 1592.
This map was first compiled by Barent Langenes and Cornelis Claesz. in 1598 for a narrative of the Dutch voyage around the Cape of Good Hope by Cornelis de Houtman in 1595-7. The map was re-used for several other publications, including Claesz.'s miniature atlas, the Caert-Thresoor. This example was published in 1606 in another miniature atlas, the Tabulae Geographicae Contractae, with text by Petrus Bertius. It served as the title image to Book 3 of the atlas, which focused on Africa.
Coloured. [Betz (R.L.): 'The Mapping of Africa' 37] [AFR6074] |