| Record ID | cp010467 |
| Voet reference number | 2480 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Lucas Janszoon WAGHENAER |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page:] † Teerste Deel Vande □ Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, vande nauigatie ‖ der Westersche Zee, Innehoudende alle de Custē ‖ vā Vranckrijck Spaignen en̄ t'principaelste ‖ deel van Engelandt, in diuersche Zee Caertē ‖ begrepē, met den gebruijcke van dien, nu met ‖ grooter naersticheijt bij eē vergadert en̄ ghe= ‖ practizeert Door Lucas Iansz. Waghenaer ‖ Piloot ofte stuijrman Residerende Inde ‖ v'maerde Zeestadt Enchuijsen. ‖ Cum Priuilegio ad decennium. ‖ Reg. 1.5.83 Matis. ‖ et Cancellarie Brabantie [Printed typographically underneath:] Ghedruct tot Leyden / by Christoffel Plantijn / ‖ voor Lucas Janssz / Waghenaer van Enckhuysen. ‖ Anno M.D.LXXXIIII. |
| Collation | Folio (390 × 285): [A], B-D⁶, (quires with maps not marked), *⁴; pages [1-4], 5-40 (Errors: 1 for 18), 23 double sheets with maps, [1-8] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Sonet. Op den Spieghel der Zeevaert (s. I. Douza) [3]: Aen de oude ende nieuwe compaignie van t'by nae vervallen comptoir van asseurantie binnen der Stadt Hoorn. Op desen Spieghel der Zeevaert. Ode (s. I. Walraven; civilité type) [4]: Table (on three columns; gothic type) 5: Aenwysinghe ende onderrichtinghe deses boucks ende het gebruyck van dien (gothic type) 6: Totten goetwilligen leser…(gothic type) 7: Vermaeninghe tot alle ionghe zeevaerende luyden…(gothic type) 8-40: Nautical instructions (with tables and three astronomical maps and explications, two in copper engraving, one in woodcut; gothic type) 23 maps (each on a double sheet; on the two inside pages the map; on the frontside [first page ro] text in Go; backside [second page vo] blank) [1]: French, Spanish, and English names of harbours and places (gothic type and roman type) [2]: Tafele der declinatien der sonnen nae die oude maniere ende int boeck van Peeter de Medina uytghegaen (gothic type) [3]: Privilege (Philip II: Brussels, 20 December 1579, signed by J. van Asseliers; States of Holland: The Hague, 7 May 1580, s. de Rechtere) [4-5]: Tables of the declination of the sun [6]: Totten leser (gothic type) [7]: Aenden boeckbinder (gothic type) [8]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | I) Woodcuts: 1) on page 32 (circular: 237), representing a compass 2) 5 small illustrations, c. 20 high, showing various kinds of maritime beacons on first page of first map II) Copper engravings: 1) Title-page: 319 × 236: with underneath the name of the engraver: 'Ioannes a Doetecum. Fecit.' 2) Compass, 330 × 255, with a moving part showing the constellation of the northern hemisphere: on page 21 (with the name of the designer, Waghenaer, and the engraver, Ioannes a Dotecum [Jan a Deutecum]) 3) Graduated arc, 333 × 255: on page 23 4) 23 maps: the first 385 × 550, the others c. 335 × 510; with one exception (map 9), they all bear the name of the designer, Waghenaer (in its Dutch form or in its Latin translation: Aurigarius) and with three exceptions (maps 7, 9, 16) those of the engraver, Jan a Deutecum (spelled: a Doetecum, Doetinckum, Doetinchem); some maps also bear a date: 1580 (map 7), 1581 (map 4), 1583 (maps 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22), while in some the last unit of the year has not been filled in (158.: maps 14, 19, 20; maps 3, 5, 13, 15 must have belonged to the same category, but a '3' has been scratched in, probably at a later time). The inscriptions on the maps are in Dutch |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 45.2 |
| Bibliographical references | See following no |
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| Note 1 | Maritime atlas being the first part of the 'Mirror of Navigation' with 23 maps showing the coasts of Western Europe from the Zuiderzee till Southern Spain (Cadix), including the southern coast of England. As such the atlas was more especially conceived for the mariners sailing from the Netherlands to Spain. |
| Note 2 | The first map is a portolan chart of Europe in a larger format than the 22 following charts; 2. Zuiderzee; 3. Coast of Zeeland and part of Flanders (till Nieuwpoort); 4. Coast of Flanders and Picardy (from Nieuwpoort till Dieppe); 5. Coast of Normandy and Brittany (from Honfleur till St. Malo); 6. Coast of Brittany (from St. Malo till Roscoff); 7. Coast of Brittany (from Roscoff till Vannes); 8. Coast of Brittany (from Vannes till Picquetiers); 9. Coast of Poitou and Bordelais (from Picquetiers till the mouth of the Garonne); 10. Coast of Gascony and Biscay (from Bayonne till Laredo); 11. Coast of Biscay (from Laredo till Santillana); 12. Coast of Biscay (from Rio de Sella till Aviles); 13. Coast of Galicia (from Aviles till Ortegal); 14. Coast of Galicia (from Ortegal till Monte Louro); 15. Coast of Galicia (from Cabo de Finisterre till Camina); 16. Coast of Portugal (from Camino till Montego); 17. Coast of Portugal (Lisbon and the surrounding country); 18. Coast of Portugal (Algarve); 19. Coast of Southern Spain (including Cadix); 20. Coast of Southern England (from Land's End till Plymouth); 21. Coast of Southern England (from Plymouth till Portland); 22. Coast of Southern England (from Wight till Dover); 23. Coast of Southern England (from Dover till Ipswich). |
| Note 3 | Of the first part of the 'Mirror of Navigation' at least three different editions were printed in 1584 (each with their variants) - that is the accompanying letterpress parts of the atlas were at least three times set. BB and Koeman do not distinguish between the first two printings; their 'first' edition englobes in fact the first and second editions, while their 'second' edition is in fact the third. It is difficult to say which of the two 'first editions' came really first. In any case, as the presentation copy to Prince William I of Orange (see no. cp012853) is in the version described here, it may safely be surmised that this was really the very first edition. |
| Note 4 | A copy of the atlas was already sold for the sum of 4 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers on 23 December 1583 (cf. Koeman, The history of L.J. Waghenaer…, page 41). |
| Note 5 | A copy of 'Spiegel der sevaert Lucas Wagenaers, in folio' figures among the works printed in Leiden, of which Plantin presented a copy to the Leiden magistrate on 2 January 1585 - this copy is still in Leiden University Libraries (cf. E. Hulshoff Pol, 'Boucken op 't secreet. Plantijndrukken op het raadhuis te Leiden' in Leids Jaarboekje, 1972, page 93). |
| Note 6 | Copies of this First Part and of the Second Part are often found bound together. |
| Note 7 | Listed in M 296, folio 18r (Spiegel der seevaert door Lucas Jansen Wagenaer, f[euilles] -, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 6; it may be that the price noted was for the two parts of the atlas), and M 321 (sub 1584: Teerste deel…f[euilles] - in f⁰, pap[ier] pesa[n]t copere figuren [= copper engravings]). |
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