Bibliographical sources mentioned in this text:
Ælianus 212.21-23; : Bk.14 Ch.23 De Animalibus 212.25
Ammianus, Marcellinus is mentioned three times on the map sheet; further in text 212.6
Antoninus is mentioned three times on the map sheet
Apollonius is mentioned once on the map sheet; further in text: Bk.4 Argonautics 212.25
Arrianus Periplus is mentioned once on the map sheet; further in text 212.3; commented on by William Stuckius 212.30
Aurelius, Victor 212.6
Cæsarius, brother of Nazianzenus : Dialogues 212.26
Causabonus the learned and industrious, quoting Dion Pruseus 212.16
Ciaccones, F. Alphonsus 212.8
Claudianus the Poet 212.11, 212.20
Comes, Marcellus : Liber Notitiarum = Book of Remembrances 212.6, 212.16; Miscellaneous Story 212.6
Dion Nicæus 212.14
Dion Pruseus 212.2, 212.4, 212.12; : Life of Emperor Traianus 212.7; quoting Homerus 212.13; quoted by Causabon 212.16
Eutropius 212.6, 212.7, 212.15
Florus 212.9, 212.22
Gyraldus : Syntagmata Deorum 212.26
Herodotus is mentioned once on the map sheet; further in texts 212.2; : Bk.1 212.3
Holy Script 212.26
Homerus, the Prince of Poets 212.11; quoted by Dion Pruseus 212.13
Horatius 212.2; interpreted by Acron 212.27
Iornandes is mentioned twice on the map sheet. Further in texts 212.2, 212.5, 212.6, 212.14, 212.18
Iosephus : Bk.2 Against Appian 212.13
Isidorus : Bk.17 Ch.9 Origines 212.28
Isogonus, quoted by Plinius 212.24
Iustinianus : Digests of Civil Law 212.5, Code 212.18
Lazius 212.6
Lycophron is mentioned once on the map sheet
Macron, interpreting Horatius 212.27
Mela, Pomponius 212.27
Modestus, Aufidius quoted by Philargyrius 212.11
Mutianus, Hieronymous, the famous painter 212.8
Nicæus, Dion see Dion Nicæus
Nicetas, reported on by Saint Paulinus 212.4
Ortelius is mentioned in the cartouche of this map as its maker and dedicator, Ort212
Ovidius the Poet is mentioned 4 times on the map sheet; further in texts 212.10, 212.18, 212.19; : Bk.5 Elegy 7 De Tristibus 212.25; Bk.1 De Ponto 212.20, 212.24; Bk.3 Elegies 1,4 & 10: 212.24, Bk.4 Elegy nr.9: title cartouche
Paulinus, Saint : Return of Nicetas 212.4
Philargyrius basing himself on Aufidius Modestus 212.11
Plinius is mentioned twice on the map sheet. Further in texts 212.2, 212.5, 212.7, 212.10, 212.14, 212.28; quoting Isogonus 212.24
Plutarchus : Marius 212.18
Polyænus : Bk.8 212.18
Polybius : Bk.4 212.29
Posidonius, quoted by Strabo 212.22
Priscianus 212.7
Procopius : Bk.4 Ædifici 212.20
Pruseus, Dion see Dion Pruseus
Ptolemæus, Prince of all Geographers is mentioned 6 times on the map sheet; further in texts 212.5, 212.14, 212.18
Rufius, Sextus 212.16
Salustius : Fragments 212.26
Seneca : Bk.6 Natural Philosophy 212.27
Silius Italicus 212.13
Smetius 212.17
Solinus 212.20, 212.22
Statius 212.10
Stephanus 212.2
Strabo 212.2, 212.12, 212.13, 212.16, 212.21, 212.29; : Bk.7 Geography 212.9, 212.30; Epitome 212.30; quoting Posidonius 212.22
Stuckius, William commenting on Arrianus Periplus 212.30
Suetonius 212.2
Suidas 212.4, 212.15
Tacitus is mentioned once on the map sheet; further in text 212.7
Vegetius : Art of War 212.11
Vergilius 212.11; : Bk.3 Georgics 212.9
Vopiscus, Flavius 212.15
Werdenstein, Ioannis Gregorius of Augustana and Eychstet is the person to whom Ortelius dedicates this map, Ort212
Xilandrus 212.14
Zosimus 212.18