- Carta marina
The (
Latin : map of the sea or sea map) is the earliest map of theNordic countries that gives details and placenames. In production for 12 years, the first copies were printed in 1539 inVenice . The map was printed from nine 55x40 cmwoodcut blocks to produce a document that is 1.70 m tall by 1.25 m wide. Only two earlier maps ofScandinavia (or Schondia) are known, those of Ziegler and Clavus.[
Olaus Magnus ] The map was created inRome by the SwedeOlaus Magnus (1490–1557), who arrived on a diplomatic visit for the Swedish government and stayed on, likely because his brotherJohannes Magnus became involved in a religious feud with KingGustav I of Sweden .All of the map's copies passed out of public knowledge after 1574, and the map was largely forgotten – perhaps because only a few copies were printed and because
Pope Paul III asserted a 10-year "copyright." It was later widely questioned whether the map had ever existed.In 1886,
Oscar Brenner found a copy at theHof- und Staatsbibliothek [Current Location [http://cipher.uiah.fi/forum/materials/carta_marina?lang=en] ] inMunich ,Germany , where it currently resides. In 1961, another copy was found inSwitzerland , brought to Sweden the following year by theUppsala University Library ; as of 2007 is stored atCarolina Rediviva .The notes on the map in Latin were translated by Olaus into Italian and German. It is generally considered that the "
A description of the Northern peoples " ("Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus", Rome, 1555) is a much larger commentary on the map.References
Additional
#sv icon" [http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/geohist/0247.html Geografiens och de geografiska upptäckternas historia / Geography and The Geographical Voyager's history] " (1899)
#"Carta marina et descriptio : the commentary by Olaus Magnus to Map of the Scandinavian countries 1539", Provisional ed. (1988)External links
*" [http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/search?SEARCH_NUMM=9132873 Carta Marina] "-
Antoine Lafréry 's (1512 - 1577) edition from 1572, digitalized by the Royal Library in Stockholm
*" [http://bell.lib.umn.edu/map/OLAUS/TOUR/indext.html University of Minnesota Carta Marina] " - the original orPope Paul III (1468–1549) map from 1539, in jpeg images. The site contains more information on early printing process.
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