Johannes Cotovicus or Jan van Cootwijk was a 17th-century travel writer who wrote an account of a journey to Jerusalem and Syria.[1] Cootwijk was a native of Utrecht and a Doctor of Laws. He travelled through much of western Europe before embarking on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem which he described in Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum (Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1619). This was translated into Dutch by Adriaan van Meerbeeck under the title De loflycke reyse van Jerusalem ende Syrien (Antwerp, 1620).
Johannes Cotovicus | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Jan van Cootwijk |
| Died | 1629 |
| Language | Latin |
| Genres | travel writer |
| Subjects | the Levant |
| Notable works | Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum (1619) |
The Itinerarium included an abridgement of Gasparo Contarini's De magistratibus et republica Venetorum (1543) which was later published separately as Synopsin respublicae Venetae (1626).
References
edit- ^ A. J. van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, vol. 3 (Haarlem, 1858), 704-705. Available on Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Accessed 16 November 2015.
External links
edit- Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum on Google Books. Accessed 16 November 2015.
- Itinerarium hierosolymitanum et syriacum 1619, archive.org