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4. How could Jenkinson's map be examined by scholars if the genuine
copy of the map has been lost immediately after its printing? (About the
development of the examination by numerous scholars)
Undoubtedly we have to remember that it happened thanks to above mentioned famous
cartographer Abraham Ortelius as the creator of the first Atlas
“Theatrum Orbis terrarum”
to
which the Jenkinson's map had been incorporated, too. Although he did not use it in an
original form, however, thanks to him the knowledge on the map and its author has
survived. On the other hand, to include the map in its original big size was even technically
not possible. He was then obliged to reduce its format, as well as to limit its decorative
elements and the number of boxed texts. However, he never limited the geographical
content of the maps he reworked. He also always put the original authors in them, in spite
of his own authorship as the new author of rendition. The engraver of Ortelius' rendition
was Franciscus (Frans) Hogenberg.
Apart from the Ortelius' and de Jode's renditions, another one had been made by above
mentioned Deutecum brothers with the date 1569
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. As well as rather mysterious is the
Ortelius' rendition reworked by Antonio Possevino (1533/34 --1611), in 1587 edition of his
topic (reproduction of the map in : Szykula, K., 2000, p. 79). One more rendition, has been
published by B. Langens much later than the first edition of Ortelius' Atlas in Amsterdam
(1598)
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.
The first historian of cartography who revealed his interest in Jenkinson's map was Richard
Hakluyt (1552 - 1616). It resulted in the comprehensive edition of the topic entitled
“The
Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nations”
(1589), where he included
Jenkinson's accounts from his diary about his journeys. Among them he placed the
description on the journey by the first Russian ambassador in England during the reign of
Mary Tudor. The interest in the period of journeys and Jenkinson's map has reappeared and
raised in 19
th
century. It was the topic which became the fundament of the work by Edward
Delmar Morgan and Charles Henry Coote and resulted in their topic published in 1886 -
“Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen”(
Morgan, E.D. & Coote
,
H., 1886). At the end of the 19
th
century we can notice a great interest
by Russian scholars, as well. The leading one at that time was the scholar of Russian history
of cartography Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kordt (1899), who has published absolutely
fundamental work on the early maps of his country in which he included their
reproductions, too. At the beginning of the 20
th
century another Russian historian of
cartography H. von Michow (1906, pp. 22-25) showed the same interest, and in the interwar
period also Leo Bagrow (1928) - the Russian emigrant settled in Germany and then Sweden.
Again, after the World War II, we can observe an interest in our subject. There are articles by
Dutch historian of cartography Johannes Keuning (1956), and by mentioned Leo Bagrow
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The map is known as well as “Dashkov map” because the only genuine copy survived in Dashkov collection in
Petrograd (St. Petersburg)
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Sketch map published by Petrus Kaerius entitled
“Ruſſia”
According to Wikipedia, the map is available in New York
Public Library.
