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542 Reviewsdelineatione exhibens"; the map is oriented to the north; and the lengthy Latin andFrench commentaries of Hondrus are omitted. 9 The same map was included in thefirst volume of an atlas published by Jansson's heirs in 1666. 10The second variant of the Jansson copy first appeared in volume 1 of The EnglishAtlas (Oxford, 1680). This variant differs from the first one by having the followingcharacteristics: grid lines representing the parallels of latitude and the meridians oflongitude, with a different numbering of the latter; commentaries pertaining to theCossack battles in 1649 and 1651; a numeral XII in the upper left corner; and thefollowing inscription along the bottom center of the map: "Ex Officina JanssonioWaesbergiana, et Mosis Pitt.""The third variant of the Jansson copy—it is this map which is partially reproducedby Magocsi—differs from the one above by the following peculiarities: itdoes not contain the numeral XII; the southern boundaries are marked in heavy brokenlines; and the bottom center of the map has the following inscription: "PenesGerardum Valk et Petrum Schenk." The named individuals prepared the variant fortheir atlases, which appeared in Amsterdam at the close of the seventeenth century.Copies of it can be found in other atlases published in the eighteenth century. 12The problem relating to Beauplan's years of birth and death also requires attention.The first convincing—so it appeared—information about this matter was providedin 1923 by Il'ko Borshchak, who claimed to have located at a Rouen municipalarchive a testament of Beauplan's son, who revealed in it that his father was bornin 1600 and died on 6 December 1673. 13 Even though Borshchak was not a conscientiousresearcher, 14 the scholars of his time were content to accept his discoverywithout verifying its veracity. The studies of Karol Buczek eventually had the effectof providing the final stamp of approval for Borshchak's dates. 159See, for example, map 27 in vol. 1 of Nieuwen Atlas, Ofte Werelt-beschrijvinge, VertoonendeDe voornaemste Rijcken, ende Landen des gheheelen (Amsterdam, 1658).10See map 6 in vol. 1 of Joannis Janssoni Atlas Contractus, Sive Atlantis Majoris Compendium:In quo Totum Universum Velut In Theatro, 2 vols. (Amsterdam, 1666). This map wasreproduced by Andrew Gregorovich in Forum, no. 26 (1974), pp. 16-17.11Color reproductions of this map appear in Ukrains'ka radians'ka entsyklopediia, vol. 17(1965), after p. 80; and in Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1, after p. 190.12A copy of this map is included (no. 8) in vol. 2 of R. Ottens's Atlas Maior (Amsterdam,[1724]).13Il'ko Borshchak, "Giiom Levasser de Boplan 1672-6.XIM923 [sic]. (Z nahody 250rokiv ioho smerty)," Litopyspolityky,pys'menstva imystetsrva l,no. 1 (1923):8-9.14See Zbigniew Wojcik, "Czy Kozacy Zaporoscy byli na stuibie Mazarina?" Przeglqd Historyczny64, no. 3 (1973): 576.15See Karol Buczek, "Ze studjow nad mapami Beauplana," Wiadomosci StuzbyGeograficznej 1 (1933): 29; idem, "Beauplan Wilhelm Le Vasseur de (+1673)," PolskiStownik Biograficzny, 1 (1935):384-85; idem, Dzieje kartografii polskiej od XV do XVIIIwieku. Zarys analityczno-syntetyczny (Wroclaw, 1963), p. 51; and idem, The History of PolishCartography from the 15th to the 18th Century, trans. Andrzej Potocki (Wroclaw, 1966 [2nded., Amsterdam, 1982]), p. 65.