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Map Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, the Coromandel Coast, the Orixa Coast, the River Ganges, and the Kingdom of Bengal. Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani ; al. Maris Rubri ; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprà Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum, Scopulorum, Pulvinorum, Vadorum, profunditatumque, dictis oris adjacentium, cum genuinis Singulorum locorum Nominibus, prout ab expertissimis navium Gubernatoribus Lusitanicis, indigetantur

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Title

  • Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, the Coromandel Coast, the Orixa Coast, the River Ganges, and the Kingdom of Bengal.

Other Title

  • Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani ; al. Maris Rubri ; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprà Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum, Scopulorum, Pulvinorum, Vadorum, profunditatumque, dictis oris adjacentium, cum genuinis Singulorum locorum Nominibus, prout ab expertissimis navium Gubernatoribus Lusitanicis, indigetantur

Summary

  • Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutchman whose contributions to cartography were of great significance in breaking the Portuguese monopoly on trade and navigation in the late 16th century and in opening up southern Asia to the Dutch and later the English. As a young man, van Linschoten spent four years in Spain learning a trade. He then made his way to Lisbon, where he was taken on by the archbishop of Goa, the capital of the "Portuguese State of India." The Portuguese were the only Europeans who knew the safe navigation routes to the East, which they regarded as closely guarded national secrets upon which their wealth depended. Van Linschoten was in Goa in 1583-88, during which time he gained much nautical and mercantile knowledge. On his voyage home he was shipwrecked in the Azores, where he had time to write an account of his travels. He is best known for his magnum opus Itinerario, first published in Amsterdam in 1596, of which this map forms part. The shape of the Arabian Peninsula, including the whole of Arabia, is far more accurate here than on any earlier map. Julfar (present-day Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates) is indicated for the first time. The arrowhead-shaped Qatar Peninsula, called Catura, is clearly distinguishable, located in the midst of an oyster-bed represented by small pearl-dots. Inscriptions proclaim that the map shows "the location of the gulfs and of the islands, the cliffs, raised earths, shallows, and [their] depths, that are close to these shores, with correct names for the single places, as it is required by the very expert Lusitanian pilots of ships: revised with great accuracy from excellent Indian maps, and corrected throughout." Distance scales are given in Spanish leagues and German miles.

Names

  • Langren, Henricus F. ab (Henricus Florentius), approximately 1574-1648 Cartographer.
  • Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611 Cartographer.

Created / Published

  • Amsterdam : Cornelis Claesz, 1596.

Headings

  • -  Djibouti
  • -  Eritrea
  • -  Ethiopia
  • -  Somalia
  • -  Afghanistan
  • -  Bangladesh
  • -  India
  • -  Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • -  Pakistan
  • -  Sri Lanka
  • -  Bahrain
  • -  Egypt
  • -  Iraq
  • -  Israel
  • -  Jordan
  • -  Kuwait
  • -  Lebanon
  • -  Qatar
  • -  Saudi Arabia
  • -  Syrian Arab Republic
  • -  United Arab Emirates
  • -  Yemen
  • -  1596
  • -  Arabian Gulf
  • -  Arabian Peninsula
  • -  Nautical charts
  • -  Persian Gulf
  • -  Portolan charts

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 38 x 54 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Utrecht University Library, "Key to the East: Jan Huygen van Linschoten's 'Itinerario'," http://bc.library.uu.nl/key-east-jan-huygen-van-linschoten-s-itinerario.html. External
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Latin and Dutch.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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  • 1 online resource.

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  • 2021668673

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Chicago citation style:

Langren, Henricus F. Ab , Approximately Cartographer, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten. Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, the Coromandel Coast, the Orixa Coast, the River Ganges, and the Kingdom of Bengal. Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1596. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668673/.

APA citation style:

Langren, H. F. A. & Linschoten, J. H. V. (1596) Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, the Coromandel Coast, the Orixa Coast, the River Ganges, and the Kingdom of Bengal. Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668673/.

MLA citation style:

Langren, Henricus F. Ab , Approximately Cartographer, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten. Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, the Coromandel Coast, the Orixa Coast, the River Ganges, and the Kingdom of Bengal. Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1596. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668673/>.