Generale pascaerte van gantsch Europa : inhoudende de geheele Oostersche, Noortsche en West...

A finely detailed late 16th-century portolan-style map of Europe, published by Cornelis de Jode in Antwerp (1593). The map includes parts of North Africa and Western Asia. It is characterized by numerous rhumb lines radiating from sixteen compass roses of varying complexity; the largest rose is centered over central Germany. Two circular inset diagrams appear in the top corners. The top left inset depicts a Northern Hemisphere projection including parts of the North American coast ("Americae Pars"). The top right inset shows an Eastern Hemisphere projection covering Tartary, China, and Southeast Asia. Numerous coats of arms are distributed across the landmasses to identify political regions: the triple fleurs-de-lis for France, the royal arms for England, the double-headed eagle for the Holy Roman Empire, a mounted knight for Russia (Moscovia), and a white eagle for Poland. Several regional escutcheons are placed over the Iberian Peninsula. Mountains are rendered as clusters of green-shaded peaks, and major river systems like the Rhine, Danube, Volga, and Dnieper are prominently drawn. Coastlines are densely labeled with names oriented toward the land. A single galleon is depicted in the North Atlantic. The entire map is enclosed in a geometric decorative border.

In this map, you will see the position of all of Europe described most accurately, along with the adjacent parts of Africa and Asia: by Cornelis de Jode original: "Cornelium de Judaeis". Antwerp.

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With a ten-year privilege so that no one else, under penalty expressed in the Diploma, may print or sell this map of Europe elsewhere before the said time has elapsed.

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To the distinguished and most famous man, Lord Pedro de Alarcon y Giron, Knight of the Order of Calatrava, etc. Cornelis de Jode dedicated and consecrated this map of all Europe. Antwerp.

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EUROPE, one of the four parts of the world, is said by some to have received its name from Japheth, the son of Noah, though others claim it was named after Europa, the daughter of Agenor, King of the Phoenicians. Although it is smaller than the other parts, it is considered much more cultured and famous, due to its temperate climate, the fertility of its fields, and finally its noble and crowded cities and the courage of its people. Its boundaries are the Don river original: "Tanaim fluviū", the Sea of Azov original: "Moeotim paludem", and the Black Sea original: "Pontum Euxinum" to the East; the Mediterranean Sea to the South; the Western Ocean to the West; and the Hyperborean Ocean original: "Oceanum Hyperboreum" to the North. It is also continuous with Asia via the isthmus that lies between the Sea of Azov and the Northern Ocean. In it are the remains of the Roman Empire and most flourishing Kingdoms, in which the Christian Religion is practiced with the greatest piety and devotion.

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Those islands that are seen in this passage to the North are believed to belong to the shores of Greenland.

Indeed, there is nothing more truthful and better explored, as can be gathered from nautical charts and hydrographies: and the author, to become more certain, has reduced it to this form.

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Key Geographical Labels

Oceanic & Maritime Bodies:
NORTHERN OCEAN
PECHORA SEA original: "PETZORKE MARE"
TABIN SEA
GERMAN OCEAN
WESTERN OCEAN
OCEAN OF SPAIN
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
ADRIATIC SEA
BLACK SEA now the Black Sea

Northern Europe & Scandinavia:
FINNMARK
NORWAY
SWEDEN
LAPLAND
FINLAND
LIVONIA

Western & Central Europe:
IRELAND
SCOTLAND
ENGLAND
SPAIN
FRANCE
GERMANY
ITALY

Eastern Europe & Asia:
RUSSIA original: "MOSCOVIA"
LITHUANIA
POLAND
HUNGARY
DACIA
BULGARIA
GREECE
ANATOLIA
PART OF TARTARY
PART OF ASIA

Africa:
PART OF AFRICA
BARBARY
EGYPT