[Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium Terrarum]
Map_title
[Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium Terrarum]
Map title
Creator:
Olaus Magnus
Creator
Olaus Magnus
Creator
Place of Publication:
Romae [Rome]
Place_of_Publication
Romae [Rome]
Place of Publication
Publisher:
Ex Typis Antonij Lafreri Saguani
Publisher
Ex Typis Antonij Lafreri Saguani
Publisher
Publication date:
MDLXXII. [1572]
Publication_date
MDLXXII. [1572]
Publication date
Map size height:
52.8 cm.
Map_size_height
52.8 cm.
Map size height
Map size width:
79.4 cm.
Map_size_width
79.4 cm.
Map size width
Item description:
engraving, 2 sheets joined
Item_description
engraving, 2 sheets joined
Item description
Geographical description:
Map of Scandinavia consisting of two sheets which are joined. Includes the North Atlantic Ocean and part of Greenland. Greenland is shown with hunters and a shipwreck. Cartographic elements include scale, degrees of latitude and longitude, windroses, rhumb lines, and some topographical details. Decorative elements include sea monsters, including whales, seals, narwhal, lobsters, and sea serpents, ships, coats of arms, volcanoes, animals such as polar bears, reindeer, birds, horses, foxes or wolves, and men hunting.
Geographical_descrip tion
Map of Scandinavia consisting of two sheets which are joined. Includes the North Atlantic Ocean and part of Greenland. Greenland is shown with hunters and a shipwreck. Cartographic elements include scale, degrees of latitude and longitude, windroses, rhumb lines, and some topographical details. Decorative elements include sea monsters, including whales, seals, narwhal, lobsters, and sea serpents, ships, coats of arms, volcanoes, animals such as polar bears, reindeer, birds, horses, foxes or wolves, and men hunting.
Geographical description
Cartobibliographic notes:
Reduced version of the 9-sheet woodcut map published by Olaus Magnus, last Catholic archbishop of Sweden, in Venice, 1539. The 1539 version of the map was the first large-scale national or regional map ever published and was drawn to demonstrate to the Pope the extent of the area that the Roman Church would lose to the Protestants.The title, omitted here, is supplied from the larger version of the map.
Cartobibliographic_n otes
Reduced version of the 9-sheet woodcut map published by Olaus Magnus, last Catholic archbishop of Sweden, in Venice, 1539. The 1539 version of the map was the first large-scale national or regional map ever published and was drawn to demonstrate to the Pope the extent of the area that the Roman Church would lose to the Protestants.The title, omitted here, is supplied from the larger version of the map.
Cartobibliographic notes
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1960, p. 31-32; E. Lynam, Carta marina of Olaus Magnus; Tooley, R.V. "Maps in Italian atlases," Imago Mundi, III, p. 12-47; Granlund, J. "Carta marina," Imago Mundi, VIII, p. 35-43
References
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1960, p. 31-32; E. Lynam, Carta marina of Olaus Magnus; Tooley, R.V. "Maps in Italian atlases," Imago Mundi, III, p. 12-47; Granlund, J. "Carta marina," Imago Mundi, VIII, p. 35-43
