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ten maps, dating about 1380 ; one is at Paris, and ten are in the Florentine 

 archives.' Jacobus GtIROLDIS was a Venetian ; two of his maps, dated 1422 

 and 1446, are in the BibHotheca Marciana, in his native city ; others at Paris 

 and Florence ; the name (like Dulcert's) varies as Giroldis, Ziroldis, Zeroldus, 

 and Ziredis;- but F. Ongania gives it as Giacomo Girardi de Venesia. 

 Andkea Bianco. — If (as is probable) he is the monk and geographer of 1300, 

 the Venetian map,^ bearing his name, but dated 1436, is a copy. Geatiosus 

 Benincasa, of Ancona, has left twenty-five maps, dating between 1435 and 

 1482. There are five in the British Museum, three at Paris and two at 

 Venice, the rest at Florence, Palermo, Milan, Eome, Murano, Bologna, and 

 Aneona. Fea Maueo Camaldonus, about 1450, executed the famous 

 planisphere in the " BibHotheca Marciana."^ It has been frequently copied, 

 as on the wall of a palace in Florence, and for Alphonso of Portugal, who died 

 1481.* Andkea Benincasa (whose map of 1469 I use) made other maps, 

 now at Geneva, 1476, Ancona, 1490, and Eome, 1508. Juan deLa Cosa was 

 a companion of Columbus on his second voyage; he is also named " Bizcanio."^ 

 Baptisto Agnesi was not an original cartographer, but a neat and prohfic 

 copyist: his maps date 1529 to 1562, three at Venice, two at Paris, and 

 others at Florence, Munich, Dresden, Gotha, Catania, Dublin," and Stockholm. 

 The last and latest is reproduced by Nordenskiold. The Dublin atlas in Trinity 

 College closely resembles the anonymous Upsal map of circa 1450. Geoerio 

 Calapoda, of Crete, lived between 1537 and 1565; his beautiful and 

 gorgeous map of 1652 can be studied in Periplus. 



I have now only to give the tabulated results from some three dozen 

 early maps, which I hope may help Irish topographers, who have, I think, 

 never gone behind the Elizabethan maps. The outlines will, I hope, make 



1 of the other superscriptions I may select, " Guilellmo Soleri ciuis maiorcaru me fecit Ano 

 natiuitiitis dni 1385"; "1380, Guillnio Soleri ciuis maioricaru me fecit"; " 1367, hoc npus 

 compoxuit franciscus piziganus Veneciar et domnus piziganus in 'Venexio meifecit marcus die, 

 12 decemhris." 



^ Nordenskiold only gives. an outline and list of names from one of the maps. Some twenty-five 

 of his maps are preserved. The 1422 map has the signature " mccecxxii mense Jiinii die primo 

 Jachohus de Giroldis Veneciis me fecit" ; the 1426 map, " Jachohus de Giroldis (or Ziraldis) de 

 Veneciis nie fecit Anno domin niccccxxvi." 



" He painted a mappemonde on the wall of a room in the Monastery on the Isle of Murano near 

 Venice (" Science and Art in the Middle Ages," ed. 1878, Paul Laeroix, curator of the Library of 

 the Arsenal, Paris, p. 286). 



* Also for the British Museum. See also " Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients " 

 (W. Vincent, London, 1807). 



' See Alexander von Humholdt, in Dr. F. W. Ghillany's " Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter 

 Martin Behaim," &c., Niirnberg, 18.53. There is a facsimile in Jomard's " Monuments." 



^ It Ijas been said that the Dublin copy is unsigned and not Agnesi's. On the map of the 

 Euxine, however, may be seen the inscription, " Baptista agnesi ianuensis fecit uenetiis, 1.544, die 

 22 Octob." On the front page is " Leonardi Marinorii est liber iste Ancona." (See "Catalogue 

 of Manuscripts, Library of Trinity College, Dublin," p. 1.58, No. 17.) It has eleven maps. 



