Rediscovery of Jenkinson’s original makes it possible to verify the fidelity of the Ortelius rendition only, not De Jode’s which is also considered. The map in question portrays the area from the Gulf of Finland to the region of Tashkent and Bukhara. The original Jenkinson map rediscovered in 1987 was exhibited for the first time in a poster session of the 13th International Conference on the History of Cartography in Amsterdam in 1989. The map under consideration is the result of first travels of Englishmen searching for the route to China in the 16 th century. This paper deals with the only extant copy of the newly found map of Russia of 1562 purchased for the Wroclaw University Library cartographic collection and covering the eastern end of Europe.
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