This large beautifully hand coloured original antique map
of
Norway & parts of
Scandinavia - with an inset map of Lapland & Northern
Norway - by
Johann Baptist Homann
was published 1720.
Before the
fifteenth century the peoples of Southern Europe had
little geographical knowledge of the Scandinavian world
except from sketchy detail shown in the Catalan Atlas
(1375) and on a number of 'portolani' embracing Denmark
and the southern tip of Norway. It was not until 1427
that a manuscript map prepared about that time by
Claudius Clavus (b. 1388), a Dane who had spent
some time in Rome, made available to scholars a
tolerable outline of the northern countries and
Greenland. That was to remain the best map available for
the rest of the century and it was used as the basis for
maps of Scandinavia in early printed editions of
Ptolemy. Others by Nicolaus Cusanus (1491) and Ehrhard
Etzlaub (c. 1492) followed but, needless to say, these
are extremely rare; even the later maps by Olaus Magnus
and Marcus Jordan, where they have survived at all, are
known only by very few examples. In fact, apart from the
rare appearance of an early Ptolemy map, the oldest of
Scandinavia which a collector is likely to find are
those in Munster's Cosmography published in 1544
with many later editions. In the following centuries the
comparatively few maps and charts compiled in
Scandinavia were usually published in Amsterdam,
Antwerp, Paris or Nuremberg, the more important maps
often being incorporated in the major Dutch, French and
German atlases.
(Ref:
Tooley; M&B)
General
Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: -
23 3/4in x 20
1/4in
(600mm x 515mm)
Plate size: - 23 1/4in x 19 1/2in (590mm x 495mm)
Margins: - Min 1/8in (2mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - Left margin cropped close to border
Plate area: - Horizontal crease parallel to centrefold
Verso: - None
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