Johannes Cotovicus or Jan van Cootwijk was a 17th-century travel writer who wrote an account of a journey to Jerusalem and Syria. A. J. van der Aa, ''Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden'', vol. 3 (Haarlem, 1858), 704-705
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on Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Accessed 16 November 2015. Cootwijk was a native of

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and a

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. He travelled through much of western Europe before embarking on a pilgrimage to

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which he described in ''Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum'' (Antwerp,

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, 1619). This was translated into Dutch by Adriaan van Meerbeeck under the title ''De loflycke reyse van Jerusalem ende Syrien'' (Antwerp, 1620). The ''Itinerarium'' included an abridgement of

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's ''De magistratibus et republica Venetorum'' (1543) which was later published separately as ''Synopsin respublicae Venetae'' (1626).

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Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum
' on Google Books. Accessed 16 November 2015.
Itinerarium hierosolymitanum et syriacum
1619, archive.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Cotovicus, Johannes 1629 deaths Writers from Utrecht (city) Dutch Golden Age writers