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View of El Mina Fort

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View of El Mina Fort

Brosterhuisen, Jan van / Post, Frans / Blaeu sr., Joan

View of El Mina Fort.

Castrum Minae.

Key: A. Castrum. / B. Nigritarum-urbs. / C. Sacellubum. / D. Mons ?? exstructo suggestu, nostri Castrum impetebant. / E. Fluvius. / F. Mare.

Bottom right: No: 21.

Cf. National Archives, The Hague, inv. nr. VELH 619.075 and Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, inv. nr. VD 1 Fol. T12-P178399 and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. nr. NG-20-E.

The print is taken from the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem, but was originally incorporated in Caspar Barlaeus, 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia Gestarum Historia', Amsterdam 1647. See also Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, inv. nr. 1043 B 14, after p. 54 no. 21.

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Sources and literature

Barlaeus, Caspar, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia: et alibi nuper gestarum, sub præfectura illustrissimi comitis I. Mavritii [...] historia (1647)

Krogt, Peter van der, The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem: of the Austrian National Library (2005)