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194 1530? ANONYMOUS CARTA DE LAS ANTILLAS, SENO MEJICANO Y COSTAS DE TIERRA FIRMA. CARTAS DE INDIAS 1877.
 * Yucatan is shown as a peninsula. Merida does not appear. Campeche is written “Campeci,” and Mexico “Mesico.” It seems to be a map of the same period as the Weimar-Spanish, 1527.

1531 ORONTIUS FINÆUS (Nord.).
 * Yucatan (called Iucatanus) shown as an island.

1532 SIM. GRYNÆUS NOVUS ORBIS, BASILEÆ (Nord.).
 * Cuba and America confused. Yucatan not named, but indicated as a part of Cuba, which lies where Mexico should. There is a break in the isthmus.

1534? MALARTIC PORTOLAN.
 * Has Yucatan as an island far from mainland with a dense archipelago instead of an isthmus.

1534 PETRUS MARTYR, VINEGIA (Nord.).
 * Yucatan an island with dense archipelago in lieu of isthmus.

1536 MERCATOR
 * Yucatan a peninsula.

1538 GERARDUS MERCATOR (Nord.).
 * Yucatan named and an island.

1539? PORTULAN OF CHARLES V, in WIENER, 1875.
 * Has Yucatan a round island a good way from mainland on three different maps.

1540 PTOLEMY, BASEL (Nord.).
 * Yucatan shown as an island.

1542 ALONSO DE SANTA CRUZ, in DAHLGREN, 1892.
 * Shows Yucatan as a peninsula, but makes east coast run nearly east and west.

1543 CASPAR VOPEL (Nord.).
 * Yucatan shown as an island.

1548 PTOLEMY, VENICE (Nord.).
 * Yucatan shown as an island, not named.

1551 APPIANUS.
 * Has Yucatan as a peninsula.

1554 GASTALDI, MAPPAMUNDI, VENICE (Müller Coll.).
 * Has Yucatan a peninsula, but has no names save Cozumel and Catoche.

1556 HIERONIMO GIRAVA, MILAN (Nord.).
 * Yucatan is a peninsula, but much too small.

1560 FERRANDO BERTELI (Müller Coll.).
 * Yucatan (called Lucātan) is an island close to the mainland.

1562 MARTINES, JOAN, MAP OF THE WORLD (in Stevenson, 1911).
 * Yucatan is shown as a peninsula. The isthmus is too narrow.

1566? LANDA (see Plate IV).
 * This map, notwithstanding its inaccuracies, is interesting and valuable. It appears in the original MS. of Bishop Landa's famous work.