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(1962). In the same year the topic by Margaret B.G. Morton had been published, but rather
from the Jenkinson's private life point of view. Then in turn we have works by: Rybakov, A.
B. (1974), Sager, P. (1974), Bagrow L. (1975) and Oakeshott W. (1984) and finally by still
uncertain to the original finding S.H. Baron, (1989) together with his several works
connected with the epoch in question. So, these are all of the works issued before the
genuine map has been found (1987), i.e. the period when none of the mentioned authors was
aware of the original picture of the Jenkinson's map, i.e. the period when they had only two
main existing renditions as a proof of the map's existence to their disposal.
In the year 1987 starts a new epoch for the Jenkinson's map. The second step of the author
taken was to announce the subject of the rediscovery to Organizers of the next International
Conference on History of Cartography, then it was to be in Amsterdam. Just after the
announcement of the author's abstract of the subject, Canadian editor of
“Cartographica”
Edward Dahl showed an interest in this exciting news. The editor needed the confirmation
that the announcement on the genuine map in an Abstract is trustworthy. It was because of
the next paper which professor Baron prepared for printing, still about the rendition of the
Jenkinson map. Hence, professor Baron had to rework just before delivering the article
(Baron S.H., 1989) to the editor and write in the footnote this sensational news, however as
has been said, carefully informing on the new discovery. The presentation during the
conference brought unexpected effect. Englishmen who noticed the genuine map
reproduction in the poster session called: sensational, incredible, unbelievable. The first post
conference publications on the discovery were: short article in conference topic (Szykuła, K.,
1989); conference account (Scott, V.G., 1989), and the same author short information with
small reproduction of the rediscovered map (Scott, V.G., 1990), finally additional
information (Barber P., 1989). At the same time in accounts by Eckhard Jäger (1989) and R.
W. Karrow (1989) the copy in question had been announced, too.
In the meantime, there has been established a friendly scientific correspondence cooperation
between Professor Baron and the author which resulted in the Professor's first article about
the genuine copy (1993). He considered the relations between original and its renditions,
and tried to establish the real dating of the genuine copy.
5. The picture of the Jenkinson's map. The description and analysis of
the richness of the content
5.1. Historical background of the map
From the historical point of view Jenkinson's map is the 16
th
century document of the epoch
during the reign of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) in England and of Ivan IV Terrible (1530-1584) in
Russia. To be more clear why the map had been depicted we have to go back to the epoch of
Edward VI (1537-1553) and Mary Tudor (1516-1558). The date of the death of Edward is at
the same time the date of establishing the Muscovy Company. The date of the death of Mary
is in turn the period when our Jenkinson had been travelling on his first voyage to Russia
(he left London on May 1557).
