Janssonius’ Map of Herefordshire Arabia a map newly added to

a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640

Written by the Reverend John Donne

and includes insets of Mauritius

Against the Light Division at the village of Arcangues on the 10th of Dec[embe]r

By HW Parish of the Royal Artillery and J Barrow

Janssonius’ Map of Herefordshire Arabia a map newly added toJoannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards). The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term atlas (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan) and the original Mercator Atlas (published in parts