any attempt to base the ten tribes story on a real entity, complains that “the Jewish
geographer Abram Ortelli” relies on “etymological fictions.” Godbey,Lost Tribes
a Myth, 381.
67. Melion, “Ad Ductum Itineris.”
68. Montano,Itinerarium Beniamini Tudelensis.
69. The original, which the reader can see on the map, runs as follows: “ 4 Esdras.
Arsareth. Hic 10 tribus seceßere et Totatoruˆsiue Tartatorum loco Scythicæ substituer-
unt Vnde Gauthæ / seu Gauthay a`summa Dei gloria aßerenda ibidicti sunt.” Ortelius,
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, map opposite p. 105. The translation of the text is taken from
Broecke,Ortelius Atlas Maps, 163. 1.
70. Nuti, “The World Map,” 44.
71. Harris, “Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius,” 102. Harris also shows that
Ortelius was quite open to including or conveying ideas that he may have not personally
embraced.
72. Harris, “Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius,” 137.
73. Ruland, “Survey of the Double-Page Maps,” 85 ; Cosgrove,Apollo’s Eye, 130.
74. Harris, “Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius,” 89.
75. Petry,Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation, 1.
76. Wanley,Wonders of the Little World, 134.
77. Eco,Foucault’s Pendulum, 457. See also 417 – 420. The Sambatyon features in
another of Eco’s novels,Baudolino.
78. Cited in Secret,Postel Revisite ́, 181 n 1.
79. Kuntz,Guillaume Postel, ix.
80. Bouwsma,ConcordiaMundi, 298.
81. Dubois,Mythologie des Origines.
82. On Postel’s concept of history, see Bouwsma,Concordia Mundi, 251 – 292.
83. Kuntz,Guillaume Postel, 146.
84. Secret,Postel Revisite ́, 177 – 178.
85. Postel: “Admirabilis Judaerum clausorum seu decem tribuum Israel, sub
Turcarum et Ismaelitarum potentia redactarum historia, atque ipsa Ismaelitarum
origo.” An incipit by Postel as well as the headlines of each page of this unpublished
essay are in Secret,Bibliographie, 116 – 117. Postel later returned to the subject of the
origins of the Tartars, Turks, and Arabs.
86. Postel wrote this in hisDe la Repvblique des Turcs. Secret,Postel Revisite ́, 178.
87. Secret,Postel Revisite ́, 181 ; Davidson,The Idea of North, 34. On Postel as a
geographer and cartographer, see Destombes, “Guillaume Postel, Cartographe.”
88. Cited in Bouwsma,Concordia Mundi, 58.
89. See, for example, the connection between this song and the one sung by
Deborah the prophetess in Judges 5.
90. Postel was very familiar with the Zohar and used it for all sorts of purposes,
most notably for establishing his own messianic and prophetic aspirations. Petry,
Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation, 31 – 45 , 71 – 93.
91. Cited in Secret,Postel Revisite ́, 179.
92 .Ge ́nebrard,Chronographiae libri quatour, 158 – 159.
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