Beinecke MS 564
Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon.  Descriptio orae maritimae Frisiae orientalis et
occidentalis, with 2 maps on vellum.  Latin manuscript.  Leyden, ca. 1592. 
Paper.   iii + 43 ff. (395 x 455 mm.) 1 column, 24 lines.  Humanistic cursive
script.  Printed sketch of harbor of Amsterdam on title page; several
watercolor sketches of coastlines.

   I^^4, II^^2, III^^4, IV^^2, V^^4, VI^^2, VII^^4, VIII^^2, IX^^4, X^^2,
XI^^4, XII^^2, XIII^^4, XIV^^2, XV^^4.

Comments:  The first map, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the
coast of the Netherlands.  The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast
of England.


Map of coast of the Netherlands.

ff. 1r-29v	Descriptio orae maritimae Frisiae orientalis et occidentalis,
item Hollandiae, Zelandiae et Flandriae.

Map of southern coast of England.

ff. 32r-42v	Descriptio orarum Borealium Angliae.

Henry C. Taylor Collection, no. 9.  Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1971.

Bibliography:  J.S. Kebabian, The Henry C. Taylor Collection (New Haven, 1971)
p. 2, no. 9.

Albert Derolez