Map · Latin
New map of the Russian Empire drawn from the most accurate maps hitherto, especially from the map of Nicolaes Witsen (route map of the Ides embassy to China, 1692-1695)
Evert Ysbrants Ides; Nicolaes Witsen; Gerrit Drogenham
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
compilation: reduction of Witsen 1687 map with the Ides embassy route added; issued with the Dutch Ides 1704 and later
Research notes
- Gallica attributes different states to Ides and to Witsen; e-rara catalogue dates 1673 and 1720 bracket rather than date the sheet. Record both attributions.
- Related to W006 (Ides English 1706). The Dutch Ides text (Driejaarige reize, 1704) not located in this pass: see candidates.
Why it matters
Links the English pass W006 (Ides travels) to Witsen's cartography: the map that carried Witsen's Siberia and the Ides route into eighteenth-century atlases. Useful for tracing how Witsen's toponymy for Tartary spread.
Places named
Russia; Siberia; Mongolia; Manchuria; China frontier
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- this one was drawn from it (stated)Reduction of the Witsen 1687 map issued with Ides