Having set out, we examined the individual Provinces where the Slavic language is used, such as Hungary, Transylvania, Poland, Scandinavia, and Russia. In this way, Europe being completed at the Isthmus which lies between the sources of the Tanais The Tanais is the ancient name for the Don River in Russia, traditionally considered the boundary between Europe and Asia. and the Northern Ocean, we came to the boundary of Europe and Asia. From there we entered into Asia. Having contemplated that continent, we descended into Africa through the narrow passage between the innermost recess of the Arabian Gulf The Red Sea. and Lake Sirbonis by the Mediterranean Sea. From there, we reached the Strait of Gades The Strait of Gibraltar. by way of Egypt and Barbary. Barbary was a term used by Europeans from the 16th to 19th centuries to refer to the coastal regions of North Africa. Having crossed this, we finally return home to the place from which we departed. We are like a traveler or some pilgrim who, after surveying the individual nations and Regions in the long order in which they are joined to one another (skipping none), at last returns happy and safe to the place from which he set out. So much for the Maps themselves; now we will speak of the reverse side of the Maps. Since it seemed useful to us, and we thought it would be unpleasant for the Reader or Spectator to see the backs of the sheets so empty and entirely blank, we decided to add a certain brief explanation of the individual Maps there. This was done in the same manner as we said we did for the Maps themselves: omitting or concealing the name of no one who was of use to us. At the end, we will add the names of all the Authors we either knew or possessed, from whom a fuller knowledge of the individual Regions can be sought, if anyone requires it. Therefore, students of Geography will have here a kind of workshop equipped with every apparatus of instruments. This is provided through these Authors listed in order, the Catalog of Geographical Map Authors which we have placed at the beginning of the book, and finally these Maps of our own. From this workshop, if perhaps they feel they lack something for a certain book or for descriptions of Regions, they can see with little, or indeed no trouble, where it may be sought. These are the things we thought should be indicated to the Reader. It remains for us to pray that everyone receives this labor of ours with the same spirit with which it was both begun and finished by us, and finally published. Farewell, and enjoy; and

CATALOG OF AUTHORS

OF GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS,

AS MANY AS HAVE HITHERTO COME

TO OUR KNOWLEDGE; TO WHICH WE

HAVE ADDED WHERE, WHEN,

AND BY WHOM THEY WERE PRINTED.

Aegidius Bulionius Belga Gilles Boileau de Bouillon, a 16th century Belgian architect and engraver., described Belgic Gaul, which Jan Liefrinck published at Antwerp; and Savoy with the County of Burgundy; published by Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp.
Aegidius Tschudus Aegidius Tschudi, a Swiss historian and cartographer often called the father of Swiss geography., Raetia and Helvetia; at Basel by Isingrin.
Andreas Theuetus André Thevet, a French Franciscan priest and explorer., France; but has not yet published it.
Antonius Ienkinsonus Anthony Jenkinson, an English merchant and traveler who was one of the first Britons to travel to Russia and Central Asia., Russia; London. 1562.
Antonius Wied, Muscovy; Antwerp.
Augustinus Hirsvogel, published a map of Regions not seen until now (as the title has it); it contains Slavonia, Carinthia, Styria, Gorizia, etc., and neighboring Regions; at Nuremberg, by Johann Weigel.
Augustinus Iustinianus Agostino Giustiniani, a bishop and scholar from Genoa., Bishop of Nebbio, reduced a description of Corsica into a Map, as he himself says in his History of Genoa.