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Groot-Bijgaarden (Abbatia Maioris Bigardiae)
...Kathelijne van der Straeten as abbess. In 1578, during the Dutch Revolt, the women fled to Dendermonde and later to Brussels. They did not return until 1598 to begin a...
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Brussels - Forestum vulgo Vorst
...1239 the first abbess was appointed. From the Community of Noble Benedictine (Dames van Vorst) consisted of noble and/or wealthy nuns who transferred their personal property upon entering the monastery,...
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Jaffenapatam
Jaffna A lovely bird’s-eye plan of the fort and town of Jaffna with great detail even of the individual fields and gardens. Embellished with a simple compass rose and numerous...
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Strait of Magellan - Magellanica A
Magellanica Willem Blaeu published a first version of this map in the Atlas Novus from 1635 onwards. This copy dates from 1644-1655 and comes from the atlas updated by son...
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Michiel de Ruyter - Battle of Kijkduin
Kijkduin Do or die? The epic battle of Kijkduin took place off the southern coast of island of Texel. It is the pivot moment with respect to the survival of...
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Hoegly (Hooghly-Chinsura)
Hoegly Hoegly (now Hooghly-Chinsura): this place was founded by the Portuguese in 1579. Twenty years later they built the famous church Nossa Senhora do Rosário. The church was declared a...
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Canaan - Holy Land
...wandelt van onsen Salichmaecker Iesus Christo, neffens syne Apostelen This map was published by Nicolaes Visscher I (1618 – 1679) in ca. 1657. However, his father Claes Janszoon Visscher is...
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Praefecturae de Paraiba, et Rio Grande
Paraiba or Pernambuco North Superb map of the Brazilian coastline including the capitanias of Paraiba and Rio Grande. The map was drawn after actual surveys by Georg Markgraf, Elias Herckmanns...
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Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, Volume I
Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands(Low Countries) from 1570 up to the 20th century, in nine volumes, each describing...
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Amsterdam - Herengracht
...or mirror-image pictures. Original title of this print: “De Heere gragt van de Spiegel straat ziende naa de Leydse gragt” Texts in mirror writing in Dutch, Latin, French and German....
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