Table: Details of the maps analysed

Recurrence of those Java names first found on Lodewijcksz's chart of ?1598

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Details of the maps analysed:

  1. Lodewijcksz, G.M.A. 'Nova Tabula, Insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis et aliarum Malaccam usque, delineata in insula Iava... Nieuwe caerte op Java gheteeckent. Cornelis Nicolai excud. Baptista a Doetechum sculp.' [Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, c.1598]. The James Ford Bell scan can be enlarged to give full legibility.

  2. Lodewijcksz, G.M.A. 'Descriptio Hydrographica accommodata ad Battavorum navigationem in Javam insulam Indiae Orientalis, factam; ad quam postridie Calendas Aprilis ann. 1595 ex Hollandia solverunt et ex qua domum redierunt 3 Idus Augusti ann. 1597'. Example in the Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam. The names are repeated on De Bry's copy of Map No.1, 1599? and J.C. Van Neck's 'Tabula Itineraria', 1600.

  3. Langren, Hendrick Florent van. 'Asiae nova descriptio' 1598? Example in the University Library, Amsterdam.

  4. The Llewellyn Atlas, Christ Church, Oxford, Map O.14 (formerly West Table A 3).

  5. Langren, Hendrik van. 'Nova et accurata, totius orbis terrarum Geographica et Hydrographica Tabula'. 1599? Now lost but partially reproduced by Wieder 2: plate 40bis; Shirley, no.218.

  6. Tatton, Gabriel. MS chart covering the world between Bengal and Florida, 1600? MS. Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, Port.33 c.133. Saw a photograph courtesy of Sarah Tyacke. [The atlas of 1620-21 has very few place-names, see Tyacke, 2008.]

  7. Mercator-Hondius. Hondius, Jodocus Sr. 'Insulae Indiae Orientalis praecipuae, in quibus Moluccae celeberrimae sunt' [Amsterdam, 1606].

  8. Blaeu, Willem. Wall-map of Asia. [Amsterdam, 1608]. Saw reissue of c. 1655 by Joan Blaeu at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

  9. Lavanha, Joâo Baptista. 1615 Sheet covering Java seen via PMC 4:424.

  10. Gerritsz, Hessel. Untitled MS chart of Java and Borneo, made for the Dutch East India Company, 1628. Paris, Archives du Dépôt, Pf.192, div.2, p.1.

On the above, in general, see Schilder

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