Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica Volume IX (3 Vols.)

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-6194-621-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 1013 Seiten, Gewicht: 9000 g

Reihe: Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica

This is the last and final volume in the series Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica. This serie is the result of the author's investigations, carried out during the past thirty years in numerous Dutch and foreign collections. In this way rare cartographic material is now more easily accessible. The work is monumental in every respect, and it is indispensable for private as well as public reference collections.
This volume focuses exclusively on the work of Hessel Gerritsz. (c. 1581-1632), who ranks among the most important and influential cartographers of the early-seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He started his career in Willem Jansz. Blaeu's workshop. About 1608 he established himself as an independent engraver, mapmaker and printer. A selection of his maps has been described and reproduced in full size and his position as chart-maker of the Dutch East and West India Company is discussed in detail.
To present an easier access to the whole series, a general index on names, maps and a dozen thematic subjects of all the nine volumes has been compiled. This index volume is included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schilder, Günter

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Facsimiles
List of Colour Plates
Foreword
I Hessel Gerritsz. (1580/81 - 1632)
Pas-Caert-schryver ende Boeck-verkooper in de Pas-Caert

II In the service of Willem Jansz. [Blaeu]

III Maps of the Leo Belgicus [Lion passant facing left] engraved by Hessel Gerritsz.
III.I Map of the Leo Belgicus, printed from Hessel Gerritsz.’ first copperplate
III.2 Map of the Leo Belgicus, printed from Hessel Gerritsz.’ second copperplate

IV Hessel Gerritsz.’ rutter of Ireland, 1612

V The Beschryvinghe vander Samoyeden Landt (1612/13) and the Histoire du Pays nomme Spitsberghe (1613)
V.1 The editions
V.2 The Maps
V.2.1 The Tabula Nautica
V.2.2 The map by Isaac Massa
V.2.3 Map of the world
V.2.4 Map of the Barents Sea
V.3 The essays of Isaac Massa
V.4 The Memoriael of De Quirós
V.5. Henry Hudson’s voyage of 1610/11
Appendices

VI The Maps of Russia (1613/14), Moscow (1613) and the Kremlin (1613) by Hessel Gerritsz.
VI.1 The Predecessors
VI.2 Hessel Gerritsz.’ Map of Russia, 1613 and 1614
VI.2.1 First state, 1613
VI.2.2 Second state, 1614
VI.2.3 Third edition by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, [1634]
VI.2.4 Imitations
VI.3 Hessel Gerritsz.’ Maps of Moscow and the Kremlin, 1613
VII The Wall map of Lithuania and the Dniepr, 1613
VII.1 Lithuania in the map-image at the end of the sixteenth century
VII.2 The origin of the wall map of Lithuania
VII.3 The publication process of the wall map of Lithuania, Amsterdam
VII.4 Description of the wall map of Lithuania, 1613 00
Appendix

VIII The wall map of Spain by Hessel Gerritsz., 1612
VIII.1 Wall maps of Spain, published in Antwerp
VIII.2.1 The wall map of Spain by Hessel Gerritsz., 1612
VIII.2.2 A later edition by Pieter van den Keere, 1615
VIII.3 Hessel Gerritsz.’ folio sized map of Spain, 1613

IX The wall map of Italy by Hessel Gerritsz., 1617
X.1 Giovanni Antonio Magini: the atlas L’Italia and its overview map
IX.2 Magini’s wall-map Italia Nuova, 1608
IX.3 The wall-map of Italy by Hessel Gerritsz., 1617

X. The Wall Map of Northern Europe by Hessel
Gerritsz. and Henricus Hondius, 1635
X.1 Northern Europe in the Amsterdam cartography
X.2 The Wall Map of the Orbis Arctoi by Andreas Bureus, 1626
X.2.1 The Preparations
X.2.2 The Wall Map of 1626
X.3 The Amsterdam Edition of Northern Europe by Hessel Gerritsz. and Henricus Hondius, 1635
X.3.1 The editio princeps of 1635
X.3.2 The second edition by Joan Blaeu [1646]
X.3.3 The third edition by Joan Blaeu, [c. 1665/1670
X.3.4 Fourth edition byFrederick de Wit, c. 1680
X.3.5 Fifth edition, attributed to Pieter Mortier, c. 1710
X.3.6 Sixth edition by Pieter Mortier, after 1710
X.3.7 Seventh edition by Covens & Mortier, after 1720
Appendices

XI Hessel Gerritsz. and the PolarRegions
XI.1 The north-eastern route
XI.2 Spitsbergen
XI.3 Iceland and Jan Mayen Island
XI.4 The north-western route
Appendices

XII Hessel Gerritsz. as chart maker of the United East India Company (VOC)
XII.1 The United East India Company (VOC)
XII.2 The ship’s chart-equipment in the early years
XII.3 Towards a better organisation
XII.4 The appointment of Hessel Gerritsz. as chart maker
XII.5 List of VOC-charts by Hessel Gerritsz.
Appendices

XIII Hessel Gerritsz. and the West-India Company (WIC)
XIII.1 Early Dutch Enterprises to the West
XIII.2 The West-Indian Company (WIC)
XIII.2.1 The founding and organization of the WIC
XIII.2.2 The New World in print
XIII.2.3 The Conquest of San Salvador, 1624
XIII.2.4 Joannes de Laet and Hessel Gerritsz., 1625
XIII.2.5 The Nassau Fleet (1623-1626) and Hessel Gerritsz.
XIII.2.6 Victory of the Dutch Fleet in the Bahía de Todos os Santos in Brazil, 1627
XIII.2.7 Capture of the ‘Silver Fleet’ in Mantanzas Bay, 1628
XIII.2.8 Capture of two ships of the Honduras-fl eet, 1628
XIII.2.9 The conquest of Pernambuco, 1630
XIII.3 Hessel Gerritsz. as chart maker of the WIC
XIII.3.1 Prototypes of charts for Atlantic navigation
XIII.3.2 Hessel Gerritsz.’ charts of the Caribbean Sea
XIII.3.3 Hessel Gerritsz.’ charts of Brazil
XIII.3.4 The roteiros of Hessel Gerritsz. (1627-1629)
XIII.3.5 Set of manuscript charts attributed to Hessel Gerritsz.

Bibliography

Table of Contents of the General Index of Volumes I – IX
1. Table of Contents per Volume 7
2. Facsimile’s
2.1. Per volume 24
2.2. By author, in alphabetical order 31
2.3. By region, in alphabetical order 39
3. Names of persons, in alphabetical order 48
4. Cartographic Documents
4.1. Maps and charts alphabetically by region, within the region alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence 97
4.2. Plans, views, profiles, forts, sieges alphabetically by region, within the region alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 145
4.3. Atlases, books, catalogues, journals and rutters alphabetically by item, within the item by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence 222
4.4. Celestial maps alphabetically by author* 238
4.5. Globes, terrestial and celestial by maker, alphabetically 239
5. Thematic subjects
5.1. Accuracy circles alphabetically by author* 240
5.2. Allegories alphabetically by item, within the item alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 240
5.3. Cartouches alphabetically by item, within the item alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 250
5.4. Costume figures alphabetically by region, within the region alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 261
5.5. Documents alphabetically by item, within the item alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 294
5.6. Index sheets alphabetically by author* 302
5.7. Paintings alphabetically by name* 303
5.8. Portraits alphabetically by name* 304
5.9. Ship’s names alphabetically, anonymous ships according to author of the illustration 342
5.10. Title pages and frontispices alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 346
5.11. Various illustrations alphabetically by item, within the item alphabetically by author, for each specific author in chronological sequence* 353

*These items are indexed only per illustration

Über Autor(innen)

Günter Schilder, born in Vienna (1942), studied geography and history at Vienna University, receiving a scholarship from the Netherlands Ministry of Education to carry out research in Dutch archives regarding the history of the exploration of Australia by the United East-India Company (VOC). After receiving his PhD he went on to become the assistant of Cornelis Koeman, Professor of Cartography at Utrecht University. In 1981 he was offered a personal Chair in the History of Cartography at Utrecht University, a position he continued until his retirement in 2007. One of Schilder’s greatest achievements is the creation of Explokart, a specialized research program now located at Amsterdam University, dedicated to researching cartographic documents of all kinds from previous centuries. He is co-author of Sailing for the East. History and catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602-1799.