CLAUDIUS CLAVUS 



Hebrides to the north-east, Scotland with the island of Dumna 

 and the archipelago, Orcadia, to the north (the island of 

 Ocitis a little farther east), and the south coast of Thule farther 

 north; next Jutland, with its small islands round about, 

 and with the large island of Scandia, which, of course, became 

 Zealand (he has added Fiinen and a number of other islands) ; 

 finally the coast of Germany, and Sarmatia eastward to 

 63° N. lat.-, and with the same number of river-mouths as in 

 Ptolemy. As this coast does not extend nearly so far to the 

 east as does the Baltic on the compass-charts, it resulted 

 that Clavus's Baltic became much shorter than that of the 

 charts, and its shape had to be altered to suit Ptolemy's 

 coast-line. Then, at its northern end, the draughtsman 

 has placed possibly Pietro Vesconte's Scandinavian peninsula, 

 going out towards the west (see the two maps, pp. 223, 224) ; 

 but, as he saw Norway on the compass-charts extending west 

 as far as to the north of Scotland, where on Ptolemy's map 

 he found Thule, it was natural that he should take the latter 

 to be the southern point of Norway, and he was obliged to 

 move Vesconte's peninsula farther to the west. Its south 

 coast may have been drawn with the Medici map, or a similar 

 one, as model. As the southern coast of the Baltic was moved 

 far to the south, after Ptolemy, and Jutland was given a 

 different and smaller form than on the Medici map, besides 

 a marked inclination to the east, and as Skane had to be near 

 Zealand (Scandia), the draughtsman was obliged to move the 

 peninsula corresponding to Skane about five degrees to the 

 south. The south coast of the peninsula on the north of 

 Scotland on the Medici map (see pp. 236, 260) corresponded very 

 nearly to the south coast of Thule (with an east-south-easterly 

 direction) on Ptolemy's map; it lay in an almost corresponding 

 latitude, but, on account of the puzzling prolongation of Scot- 

 land to the east on Ptolemy's map, it had to be moved a good 

 fifteen degrees of longitude to the east. Thule was thus 

 united to Norway ^ and its south coast was given exactly the 



1 Storm [1891, p. 15] also maintains that, on the Nancy map, Thule has been 



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