[129] Winsor’s Kohl Collection of early maps, part i., no. 17.
[130] Cf. Santarem, Histoire de la Cartographie, iii. 366, and the references in Winsor’s Kohl Collection, part i. no. 19; and Bibliography of Ptolemy, sub anno 1478. A sea-chart of Bartolomeus de Pareto, A. D. 1455, shows “Antillia” and an island farther west called “Roillo.” Antillia is supposed also to have been delineated on Toscanelli’s map in 1474. In 1476 Andreas Benincasa’s portolano, given in Lelewel, pl. xxxiv. and Saint-Martin, pl. vii. shows an island “Antilio;” and again in the portolano belonging to the Egerton manuscripts in the British Museum, and supposed to represent the knowledge of 1489, just previous to Columbus’s voyage, and thought by Kohl to be based on a Benincasa chart of 1463, the conventional “Antillia” is called “Y de Sete Zitade.” It is ascribed to Christofalo Soligo. Behaim’s globe in 1492 also gives “Insula Antilia genannt Septe Citade.” Cf. Harrisse, Les Cortereal, p. 116. The name “Antilhas” seems first to have been transferred from this problematical mid-ocean island to the archipelago of the West Indies by the Portuguese, for Columbus gave no general name to the group.
[131] Cf. Kunstmann, Entdeckung Amerikas, pp. 1, etc.; Drummond, Annales da Ilha Terceira; Ernesto do Canto, Archivo dos Açores; Major’s Discoveries of Prince Henry, chap. x.; Quarterly Review, xi. 191; Cordeyro’s Historia insulana, Lisbon, 1717.
[132] Appendix xxv.
[133] Vol. ii. part 2, p. 1; also Purchas, ii. 1672.
[134] Edition of 1868, pp. xvii and 69; Kunstmann, Entdeckung Amerikas, p. 4.
[135] Cf. Gaspar Fructuoso’s Historia das Ilhas do Porto-Santo, Madeira, Desertas e Selvagens, Funchal, 1873.
[136] Cf. Studi biog. e bibliog. i. 137, which places Perestrello’s death about 1470.
[137] It has sometimes been put as early as 1440; but 1460 is the date Major has determined after a full exposition of the voyages of this time. Prince Henry (1868 edition), p. 277. D’Avezac Isles de l’Afrique, Paris, 1848.
[138] Prince Henry, edition of 1868, pp. xxiv and 127. Guibert, in his Ville de Dieppe, i. 306 (1878), refers, for the alleged French expedition to Guinea in 1364, to Villault de Belfond, Relation des costes d’Afrique appelées Guinée, Paris, 1669, p. 409; Vitet, Anciennes villes de France, ii. 1, Paris, 1833; D’Avezac Découvertes dans l’océan atlantique antérieurement aux grands explorations du XVe siècle, p. 73, Paris, 1845; Jules Hardy, Les Dieppois en Guinée en 1364, 1864; Gabriel Gravier, Le Canarien, 1874.