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APPENDIX III

THE MAPS OF YUCATAN, 1501-1800

While I was at work on the main body of this book my attention was
drawn to the question of cartography by Dr. Edward Luther Stevenson of
New York. I decided that it would be worth while to try and compile a
list of all the early maps of Yucatan. It would be folly for me to
claim that the list I give here is complete; it is, however, at least
as complete as any such list now existing. No attempt has been made to
list all the modern maps of the area; neither has there been any
attempt to include maps of limited portions of the peninsula. A
selection from the immense amount of material given by Pedro Torres
Lanzas has, however, been made, and the notes made by Dr. Tozzer in
Seville are appended.

THE MAPS OF YUCATAN ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL
ORDER

1502 ? PORTUGUESE.
Valentini (1898, 1902) refers to this map as being dated either
in 1493 or 1502. There is little doubt that this map is misdated
for the following reasons:

1. The information contained in the map is so full that it
cannot have been earlier than 1520.

2. The nomenclature is mainly "sailor names" and therefore
inconclusive.

3. The alleged Yucatan runs from its nearest point to Cuba
northwardly, not southwardly. It is my belief that the peninsula
in question is meant for Florida, and that it is too far west.

4. The whole style of the map is comparable to that of the
following well-known ones: Turin-Spanish, 1523-25;
Wolfenbuettel-Spanish, 1525-30; Maggiolo, 1527; Verrazano, 1529;
Weimar-Spanish, 1527. It is for more full and accurate than
Maggiolo, 1519. Therefore it cannot date from before 1520, and
probably not from before 1525.

ca. 1501-02 RICHARD KING PORTOLAN (Hamy Coll.).
Has Cuba and other West Indies, also eastern portions of South
America, neither Mexico nor Yucatan.

1502-04 CANTINO (Stevenson, 1903).
Has Cuba, etc. No Mexico and Yucatan.

1507 WALDSEEMUeLLER.
America first so called. Its presence is indicated, but its
shape is not defined. Florida, Cuba, and Brazil appear; Mexico
and Yucatan do not.

1508 PTOLEMY, ED. RUYSCH, R