{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40159,"auction_id":63,"set_id":91,"lot_number":"25","artist":"Philippine Insulae","title":"Jodocus Hondius","starting_price":70000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"hand-colored copper engraving from the first Frenc","size":"4 1/2” x 6” (11 cm x 15 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The Miniature Atlases of Langenes and Bertius Miniature atlases, being less costly and less cumbersome than those of folio size, were popularized by the indefatigable Ortelius. His diminutive atlas first appeared in 1577 under the name Spieghel der Werelt, but is commonly known by its subsequent name, the Epitome. As for Southeast Asia, it contained only miniature renderings of the general map from the Theatrum. But Southeast Asia was an ideal canvas for a small format atlas, since it could be divided into many islands and regions, each the subject of a map. The small size allowed such individual coverage without the loss of geographic data for the area. In 1598 Barent Langenes issued a miniature atlas, the Caert-Thresoor, which took advantage of precisely this opportunity, according individual maps to the various regions and islands of Southeast Asia. Cornelis Claesz, the Amsterdam publisher who had acquired portolan charts from Bartolomeu Lasso with the help of Plancius, and who had published the Lodewijcksz account of the de Houtman voyage, was involved with the publication. It contained separate maps of the Philippines, Moluccas, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, ‘Malacca’ (i.e., Malaya), and Arakam (Burma), in addition to the used general map of India Orien[talis], most of them engraved by Peter Kaerius and Jodocus Hondius. Another fine miniature atlas, similar in concept but expanded and with revised maps, was published by Petrus Bertius in 1616. Langenes and Bertius Maps of the Philippines The first Western maps to show the Philippines as a separate area specifically devoted to, and which used the term “Philippines” as its title, were the Insulae Philippinae of Langenes (1598) sold at Leon Gallery's Magnificent September Auction 2015, and the Philippinae Insulae of Bertius (1616), here on auction. The Langenes version is taken directly from the Linschoten map of 1595, with its peculiar east-west orientation for Palawan whereas the Bertius rendering is taken directly from the Plancius map of 1592 which in turn was based on Bartolomeo Lasso. These maps represent the first tolerably accurate depictions of the archipelago’s complicated shores, including Luzon, whose fine port of Manila had quickly become the center of the Spanish empire in the Indies. The only major error in the general outline of Luzon is in the winding peninsular region to the southeast, which should extend much further than is, in fact, depicted — [and the wrong angle of Palawan versus the Visayas in the first map by Langenes. This was adjusted by Bertius in 1616 to an almost correct angle — see image.] [Bertius based on] Lasso portrays Samar accurately for the first time, labeling it on the map as both Achan, a name which is sometimes applied to the island’s northern half, and Tandola (or Tandaya), which was actually the name of a ruler of a region of the island. When the Spanish expedition under Legazpi reached Samar in 1565, they asked for the island’s name, but their source — who was the nephew of the chief — simply gave the name of his uncle. The maze of islands in between Luzon and Mindanao are still only crudely represented, though the major islands are nonetheless depicted: Mindara (Mindoro), Panama (Panay), Cabu (Cebu), Sabunra(Leyte), Negoes (Negros), as well as Masbate (unnamed). On the west, as with many Iberian charts of the time, Palawan has been confused with Calamianes, a group of small islands situated between Mindoro and Paragua or Palawan. The mischievous island of San Juan, does not appear, since it lay (correctly) far to the east on the Lasso model. Though Bertius omits a few place names found on the Plancius, Linschoten, and Langenes maps, he includes many that are of interest. Off Samar (Tandola) lie the Ylhas del Primeiro Surgidero (islands of the first anchorage), which refers to the place where Legazpi first anchored in the Philippines. Above it is Francisco Gomez, the name being that of a Spaniard who was murdered there while performing a blood ceremony. At the southern end of the island is Abo Camucho Primeiro, a corruption of Aboca Mucho Primeiro, which in turn was probably originally notated as Abocamiento Primero, the first mouth of the channel used by the early Spanish explorers to enter the archipelago. On the west coast of Luzon is G. de Matalahambre, the ‘gulf of killing the hunger’ where a good feast must have been had. More descriptive names follow to the north: Ancon triste (sad cove), Pintados (painted), Moro Hermoso (beautiful Moor), and C. de Engano (cape of deceit), this last term being used not infrequently by Spanish mariners. REFERENCE: Thomas Suarez: Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, page 18","lot_group":"MAPS","lot_details_html":"

Philippinae Insulae
Jodocus Hondius
Amsterdam, 1616
hand-colored copper engraving
from the first French edition of Petrus Bertius’ Tabularum
Geographicum
4 1/2” x 6” (11 cm x 15 cm)

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