LANGENES, B. - Ormus

A lovely map of miniature map the Kingdom of Ormus, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive strap-work title, and with detailed topography and information. The Kingdom of Ormus was established by Arab princes in the tenth century, before becoming a part of the Portuguese Empire much later. It was what is now most of the Persian Gulf.
Bertius (1565-1629) was a Flemish cartographer, theologian, historian and geographer. Although he published much in the fields of history, theology and mathematics, he is perhaps best known as a cartographer.
His works were heavily influenced by the earlier works of Mercator, which date from the late sixteenth century. He was connected by marriage to Jacobus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere, both excellent cartographers, who would influence his later life.
He was ‘Cosmographer’ to the court of King Louis XIII.