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Deventer and Surhon Maps the Brussels Map Circle Programme for 2018 Map Heritage of the Dépôt De La Guerre at Vincennes MAPS IN January 2018 Newsletter No HISTORY 60 Deventer and Surhon Maps The Brussels Map Circle Programme for 2018 Map heritage of the Dépôt de la Guerre at Vincennes ISSN 1379-3306 www.bimcc.org 2 SPONSORS EDITORIAL 3 Swaen.com Contents Intro Monthly Internet map auctions Dear Map Friends, and Gallery Exhibitions Quality consignments welcome Again a new year is beginning: it is the twentieth in Europe revisited: a guided tour through a continent. ........4 the life of our Circle! This will be duly celebrated at the end of the year: watch this space... Looks at Books On the cover of this first issue of 2018, we have the map of ‘Saint-Hubert en Ardenne’, the only original Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration ............................................... 5 manuscript map by Jacques de Surhon which survived from 1551 to this date. Viewing this unique piece will Exploring Africa with Ancient Maps ...................................................... 8 be one of the highlights of the excursion to Arlon (Belgium) and Luxembourg which we are organising on Interview: follow-up 26 and 27 May 2018 (see the programme, page 30): don’t miss it! SCANNING - GEOREFERENCING Where are they now? ............................................................................................11 AND DIGITISING OF OLD MAPS In the mean time, you can learn more on the context in which this map was produced: Eric Leenders and History and Cartography I have finally written the article we had planned for some time, on ‘Deventer and Surhon’; we have gathered Deventer and Surhon: How they first mapped the Low WILLEM BLAEU - 23cm GLOBE SET - WALL MAP OF EUROPE ON VELLUM - SEA CHART BOOK evidence on the links between these pioneers who first Countries .................................................................................................................................15 IJzerweglaan 48 I 9050 Gent Belgium mapped the Low Countries, showing that Jacques de www.swaen.com | [email protected] [email protected] I www.aquaterra.be Surhon followed in the track of Jacob van Deventer. UK tel. +44 750 937 0039 T +32 (0)9 230 55 15 I F +32 (0)9 230 21 10 Brussels Map Circle news This issue of Maps in History also brings you the usual Early Maps of Indonesia - Conference report .......................... 24 mix of exhibition reports, book reviews and news. In particular, you will get a full report of our yearly The Brussels Map Circle Programme for 2018 ........................30 Conference in December (on page 24) dedicated to the early maps of Indonesia. International news My best wishes to you for a happy cartographic year, Faire la carte et restituer le paysage - A study day at the Arenberg Auctions Château de Vincennes (France) ..................................................................32 Tracking the map heritage of the Dépôt de la Guerre in France .......................................................................................................................................... 35 A merging of Henri Godts Paris Map Fair, Globes and Scientific Instruments ........... 37 and Romantic Agony ‘Arenberg Auctions’ is born ............................................................................ 39 News from the Royal Library of Belgium - Maps and Wolfstraat 19 Rue aux Laines Plans department ........................................................................................................40 Jean-Louis Renteux Auction calendar ........................................................................................................... 42 Vice-President & Editor [email protected] Brussel 1000 Bruxelles Tel +32 (0)2 544 55 10 Cover : La Carte de Saint Hubert en Ardenne (detail) Dealer and Auctioneer of rare books, This original manuscript map (83.5 x 60.5 cm) was drawn by manuscripts, maps and atlases Jacques de Surhon in 1551 and is preserved in the Belgian States Archives in Arlon; the cartouche dedicates it to Saint Remacle, then abbot of the Saint-Hubert abbey; his coat of arms is www.arenbergauctions.com adjacent to that of the abbey, next to the title of the map. [email protected] Photo courtesy of and copyright © to Archives de l'État à Arlon (Cartes et plans, A.1.9) JANUARY 2018 – MAPS IN HISTORY NO 60 JANUARY 2018 – MAPS IN HISTORY NO 60 4 EXHIBITIONS LOOKS AT BOOKS 5 Europe revisited: a guided tour Medieval Islamic Maps: through a continent. An Exploration Sint-Niklaas (Mercator Museum) 17 September - 17 December 2017 by Karen C. Pinto Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2016; 406 pp., ill., 25.4 x 17.8 cm ISBN: 978-0-226-12696-8 (cloth/hard back) USD 60.00 ISBN: 978-0-226-12701-9 (e-book) from USD 10.00 On 26 November 2017 a group of the enthusiasm. He didn't limit himself to Karen Pinto is a historian who has Brussels Map Circle members went to pointing out who made the map and devoted most of her professional life to see the exhibition Europa herbezocht when – after all, we could all read this the study of maps drawn by Muslims [Europe revisited], curated by our in the catalogue – but made it a very in the Middle Ages. Here she combines member Stanislas De Peuter and idiosyncratic tour through regions, some of her most important findings featuring (part of) his collection. cities and across oceans, constantly so far with new hitherto unpublished making parallels to today’s politics research on the topic. Our readers may remember the first (about the borders in Europe), to part of Stan's exhibition, shown in changes in the landscapes and cities The main title of the book, Medieval Tervuren last year and visited by many and to ways of warfare. This made the Islamic Maps, is very broad and of our members on the day after our whole tour pleasantly unexpected and Stanislas De Peuter presenting his could lead the reader to expect some most impressive collection of maps conference 2017. Stan continued the unpredictable and proves again what kind of comprehensive catalogue or same theme of Flemish-Dutch atlas could be the adage of our Circle: there encyclopaedia of Muslim cartography. cartography between 1500 and 1700, are as many ways to look at maps as second part to the catalogue, with This is not the case. As the author this time in the Mercator Museum in there are ways of making them! colour reproductions in A4 format writes, ‘This book is deliberately not a Sint-Niklaas. of the maps. These also seem to aim comprehensive study of all aspects of The catalogue of 104 pages at the novice, giving a description in Islamic maps.’ Pinto sets out to explore During the tour Stan took us on a unfortunately only exists in Dutch. colloquial language rather than using ‘a series of scenarios that illustrate journey through Europe, commenting Unfortunately, because it is a very the more scientific way of referencing new ways and alternate methodologies’ on his maps with contagious impressive work, commenting on maps. to address Islamic cartography. Her every single map shown and giving goal is to contribute ‘to assembling an general background of many items. The exhibition will be finished by the understanding of the tantalizing world For instance: the maps by Ortelius time this little account is published, of Islamic mapping.’ about Classical antiquity get a little but at your next visit to the Mercator introduction about the genre; the Museum, don’t forget to cast an eye on Nevertheless, the initial chapters of the section on title-pages is preceded by the catalogue. book review the main works of Islamic an explanation about their making a cartography, as well as the most few centuries ago; finally, the decline We already look forward to the third relevant historiography. She briefly of Dutch cartography in the 17th and last leg of this project: another mentions the Arabic or Ottoman maps century and the rise of France in this exhibition curated by Stan, in the same that are most familiar to the average domain is described, and so on. At Museum next year, and devoted to the reader like those of al-Idrisi, Piri of the main corpus of medieval Islamic to describe the different countries the beginning and at the end a short rest of the world. Re’is or the Book of Curiosities. The cartography. conquered by Islam. The work was biography of some leading European reason why precisely these works are repeatedly reproduced until the 19th cartographers is given. The Map Circle will keep you posted! the best known today is that they are She has chosen to focus instead on a century, so hundreds of different ‘highly mimetic’ (i.e. their content rather neglected type of Islamic maps, manuscript versions are extant. In The maps on display enchanted by closely matches geography as found those found in manuscripts entitled some cases, the book is illustrated their sheer beauty: any visitor, albeit on modern maps), and for this reason Kitab al-masalik wa-al-mamalik (Book with twenty regional, plus one world, a complete novice, will have been they have attracted most attention of Routes and Realms, abbreviated maps. Their coastlines, rivers and charmed by them. It is therefore more from 19th- and 20th-century historians. KMM). The original KMM was written borders are very stylized and give pleasant that the Museum added a However, Pinto points out, these in the 9th century by geographer Ibn them a strongly geometric, almost Caroline De Candt The exhibit Catalogue mimetic maps are not representative Khordadbeh (Ibn Khurradadhbih) abstract, look (see this book’s cover for [email protected] JANUARY 2018 – MAPS IN HISTORY NO 60 JANUARY 2018 – MAPS IN HISTORY NO 60 6 LOOKS AT BOOKS LOOKS AT BOOKS 7 an example). They have conventionally expand the land of the Byzantine been called ‘maps of the Balkhi school’ Empire, to which the Ottomans now and distinguished from another ‘Iraqi claimed heritage. Another reason map school’. However, as Pinto points may have been for Mehmet II to look out, the classification into Balkhi and more pious, ‘more Muslim’, in public Iraqi schools is incorrect and outdated, so as to prevent critics against his so she has coined a new name for this private likings for European art and category of maps: the KMMS, where ‘S’ cartography is the initial of the Arabic word ‘sûrat’ (‘figure’).
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