Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1914 — Map Long Hidden. [ARTICLE]

Map Long Hidden.

The discovery at the British museum last year of a map which had lain concealed in a Dutch Bible for nearly four centuries was related by Mr. J. A. J. de Villiers, honorable secretary of the Hakluyt society, before the Royal Geographical society. The Bible is dated 1532. The map was published by Jan Severszoon, whose name appears on the map as Johannes Severus, a cripple, and who has adopted the arms of the city of Amsterdam and given them his crutches ,as supporters. There is hoarded up in the museum, Mr. da Villiers says, a wealth of manuscript and printed maps whith, owing to the exigencies of space, is seldom seen, and, though there, are many famous maps elsewhere, the collection in the national treasure house is probably the largest and best In the world.