History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Part 18

1531 ORONTIUS FINaeBUS (Nord.).

Yucatan (called Iucata.n.u.s) shown as an island.

1532 SIM. GRYNaeUS NOVUs...o...b..S, BASILEae (Nord.).

Cuba and America confused. Yucatan not named, but indicated as a part of Cuba, which lies where Mexico should. There is a break in the isthmus.

1534 ? MALARTIC PORTOLAN.

Has Yucatan as an island far from mainland with a dense archipelago instead of an isthmus.

1534 PETRUS MARTYR, VINEGIA (Nord.).

Yucatan an island with dense archipelago in lieu of isthmus.

1536 MERCATOR.

Yucatan a peninsula.

1538 GERARDUS MERCATOR (Nord.).

Yucatan named and an island.

1539? PORTULAN OF CHARLES V, IN WIENER, 1875.

Has Yucatan a round island a good way from mainland on three different maps.

1540 PTOLEMY, BASEL (Nord.).

Yucatan shown as an island.

1542 ALONSO DE SANTA CRUZ, IN DAHLGREN, 1892.

Shows Yucatan as a peninsula, but makes east coast run nearly east and west.

1543 CASPAR VOPEL (Nord.).

Yucatan shown as an island.

1548 PTOLEMY, VENICE (Nord.).

Yucatan shown as an island, not named.

1551 APPIa.n.u.s.

Has Yucatan as a peninsula.

1554 GASTALDI, MAPPAMUNDI, VENICE (Muller Coll.).

Has Yucatan a peninsula, but has no names save Cozumel and Catoche.

1556 HIERONIMO GIRAVA, MILAN (Nord.).

Yucatan is a peninsula, but much too small.

1560 FERRANDO BERTELI (Muller Coll.).

Yucatan (called Luc[=a]tan) is an island close to the mainland.

1562 MARTINES, JOAN, MAP OF THE WORLD (in Stevenson, 1911).

Yucatan is shown as a peninsula. The isthmus is too narrow.

1566? LANDA (see Plate IV).

This map, notwithstanding its inaccuracies, is interesting and valuable. It appears in the original MS. of Bishop Landa's famous work. The remarks as to distances, in the southwest corner, are, of course, entirely erroneous. Also it should be noted that Cozumel (i.e., Cuzmil) and Las Mujeres are placed on the wrong side of the peninsula. One of the most interesting points about the map is that it gives Mani as "The city of the King." This is undoubtedly a reference to the Tutul Xius whom we have mentioned in the body of this book.

1566? LANDA (see Plate V).

This smaller map is much like the foregoing one. But it fails to include such place names as Ychpa, Chicheniza, Mani, and so on. At the same time a slight improvement is to be noted in the location of Cozumel, though one is at a loss to account for the placing of Cape Catoch.[A3.3]

1570 ORTELIUS, THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM.

Shows Yucatan as a peninsula; calls Merida Atalaria, Cozumel Acasumal, etc.

1572 THOMASO PORCACCHI DA CASTIGLIONE, VENICE.

Has Yucatan as a peninsula.

1576 ANOTHER EDITION OF PORCCACHI DA CASTIGLIONE.

1581 PLANO DEL PUEBLO DE MUTUL, EN LA PROVINCIA DE YUCATAN, TERMINOS DE LA CIUDAD DE MERIDA. POR MARTIN DE PALOMAR? TORRES LANZAS, i, 33.

This map accompanies the _Relaciones de la Provincia de Yucatan_. Published by the Real Academia de Historia in 1898.

1584 ANOTHER EDITION OF ORTELIUS.

1587 MERCATOR (Nord.).

Yucatan a peninsula named either Atalanta or Atalania (print indistinct).

1590 JOANNES MYRITIUS, OPUSCULUM GEOGRAPHIc.u.m RARUM, INGOLDSTADT (Nord.).

Yucatan not named. There is a projecting territory which, because of a large bay running in from the north, looks not unlike a U. Possibly the bay is the Laguna de Terminos shown too large.

1603 GULIELMUS NICOLAI BELGA, GLOBE, Lyons (Muller Coll.).

Yucatan an island far from the mainland. Cozumel much too large and close to western end of Cuba.

1605 WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU, WORLD MAP (original in Hispanic Museum, New York City).

Yucatan shown as a peninsula. Tabasco appears in the middle of the isthmus.

1608 MATTHIAS QUADUS, FASCICULUS GEOGRAPHICUS, KoLN (Nord.).

Hispania Nova. Yucatan a peninsula, but not named.

1611 HONDIUS WORLD-MAP (E. S. L.).

General shape of Yucatan approximately correct. Tabasco is shown in the middle of the isthmus. Atalana in northeast corner of Yucatan.

1613 MERCATOR, ED. IUDOCI HONDIJ, AMSTERDAM.

Yucatan a peninsula.

1620 ANOTHER EDITION OF PORCACCHI DA CASTIGLIONE.

1631 JOHN SPEED (London ?).

Yucatan shown as a peninsula.

1635 WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU, AMSTERDAM (E. L. S.).

Yucatan shown as a peninsula.

1638 Another edition of MERCATOR.

1656 MEXIQUE OU NOUVELLE ESPAGNE, PAR M. SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, PARIS.