Cartographica Neerlandica Bibliographical Sources for Ortelius Map No. 11


Bibliographical sources mentioned in this text:

Acosta, Iosephus : De Natura Novi Orbis 11.28
Alarchon, Fernando 11.43
Alvarado, Peter 11.35
Apollonius, Levinus 11.30
Benzo, Ierome 11.48
Caeriolanus, Fredericus Furius 11.30
Cartier, Iacobus 11.49
Corsalis, Andreas Florentinus on the maplate calls New Guinea Piccennacola
Cortez, Fernando 11.34
De Coronado, Francis Vasquez 11.40
De Gomara, Francis Lopez 11.47
Frisius, Gemma : World Map 11.73
Girava 11.73-74
Godoya, Diego 11.36
Guzman, Nunnez 11.38
Hakluyt : English Voyages Vol. 3 11.52
Iesuits : Epistles 11.30
Leon, Pedro Cieca 11.32
Maffeius : History of the Indies 11.30
Martyr, Petrus : Decads 11.30
Mela 11.54
Mendoza, Antonius 11.41
Navarchus, Iacobus : Sybilline Verses 11.17, 11.63
Nizza, Frater Marco 11.42
Nunnius, Alvarez 11.37
Orlandius, Cæsar 11.27, 11.68
Ortelius, Abraham : mentioned on the map plate as its designer; referring to the second edition of his Theatrum 11.27, 11.68; referring to his Thesaurus Geographicus 11.29
Oviedo, Gonsalvo Fernando 11.33
Plato 11.2, 11.55
Postellus 11.30
Plinius 11.54
Plutarchus 11.2
Ptolemæus 11.54
Resende, Amil : Antiquities of Portugal 11.27
Seneca : Medea 2nd Act 11.2, 11.55
Siculus, Marinæus : Chronicle of Spain 11.2, 11.28, 11.70
Staden, Iohn 11.51
Strabo 11.54
Thevetus, Andreas : mentioned on the map plate saying that the mouths of the river Maragnone are 104 miles from the river Amazon; 11.50
Transylvanus, Maximilianus 11.30
Ullaus, Franciscus 11.39
Varrenus, Gaspar 11.27, 11.68
Verazzanus, Ioannes 11.45
Vesputius, Americus 11.46
Xeresius, Franciscus 11.44
Zenus 11.29


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