Sailing ship near Java la Grande in Vallard Atlas 1547

Jean Parmentier (1494–1529), born in

Dieppe Dieppe (; Norman: ''Dgieppe'') is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to N ...

, France, was a navigator, cartographer, and poet. Jean and his brother Raoul made numerous voyages for the shipowner Jean Ango. In 1531 Pierre Crignon, published a collection of Jean's poetry. Although Jean was well known as a cartographer, none of his maps have survived. In their voyages he supposedly was accompanied by "Jean Sasi, le grand Peintre". Upon their return they triggered the development of the

Dieppe maps The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Henry II of France and Henry VIII of Engla ...

, influencing the work of

cartographers, such as

Jean Rotz Jean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz, was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer. He was born to a Scottish father and a French mother. Career Rotz was a member of the school of the Dieppe maps. He may have accompanied Jean Parmentier to Sumatra ...

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* ''Journal du voyage de Jean Parmentier, de Dieppe, à l'Ile de Sumatra en l'année 1529''

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