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APPENDIX III
1530? ANONYMOUS CARTA DE LAS ANTILLAS, SENO MEJICANO Y COSTAS DE TIERRA FIRMA. CARTAS DE INDIAS 1877.
- Yucatan is shown as a peninsula. Merida does not appear. Campeche is written “Campeci,” and Mexico “Mesico.” It seems to be a map of the same period as the Weimar-Spanish, 1527.
1531 ORONTIUS FINÆUS (Nord.).
- Yucatan (called Iucatanus) shown as an island.
1532 SIM. GRYNÆUS NOVUS ORBIS, BASILEÆ (Nord.).
- Cuba and America confused. Yucatan not named, but indicated as a part of Cuba, which lies where Mexico should. There is a break in the isthmus.
1534? MALARTIC PORTOLAN.
- Has Yucatan as an island far from mainland with a dense archipelago instead of an isthmus.
1534 PETRUS MARTYR, VINEGIA (Nord.).
- Yucatan an island with dense archipelago in lieu of isthmus.
1536 MERCATOR
- Yucatan a peninsula.
1538 GERARDUS MERCATOR (Nord.).
- Yucatan named and an island.
1539? PORTULAN OF CHARLES V, in WIENER, 1875.
- Has Yucatan a round island a good way from mainland on three different maps.
1540 PTOLEMY, BASEL (Nord.).
- Yucatan shown as an island.
1542 ALONSO DE SANTA CRUZ, in DAHLGREN, 1892.
- Shows Yucatan as a peninsula, but makes east coast run nearly east and west.
1543 CASPAR VOPEL (Nord.).
- Yucatan shown as an island.
1548 PTOLEMY, VENICE (Nord.).
- Yucatan shown as an island, not named.
1551 APPIANUS.
- Has Yucatan as a peninsula.
1554 GASTALDI, MAPPAMUNDI, VENICE (Müller Coll.).
- Has Yucatan a peninsula, but has no names save Cozumel and Catoche.
1556 HIERONIMO GIRAVA, MILAN (Nord.).
- Yucatan is a peninsula, but much too small.
1560 FERRANDO BERTELI (Müller Coll.).
- Yucatan (called Lucātan) is an island close to the mainland.
1562 MARTINES, JOAN, MAP OF THE WORLD (in Stevenson, 1911).
- Yucatan is shown as a peninsula. The isthmus is too narrow.
1566? LANDA (see Plate IV).
- This map, notwithstanding its inaccuracies, is interesting and valuable. It appears in the original MS. of Bishop Landa's famous work.
