1657 Jansson Map of Germany

by Paul Fearn

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1657 Jansson Map of Germany

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Paul Fearn

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Photograph

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This is a remarkable example of Jan Jansson's 1657 mapping of Germany in antiquity. Depicts a richly forested region covering from Gaul to Dacia and from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea. Cartographically this map exhibits heavy influence from a very similar map of the same name published by A. Ortelius in his 1597 Parergon . Based on Greek and Roman sources including Pliny, Strabo, Virgil, Ceasar, and others. Ships and monsters decorate the seas. A decorative title cartouche depicting curious warlike figures in animal skins appears in the lower right quadrant. A second cartouche appears in the lower left. This remarkable map was published in volume six, the Orbis Antiquus , of Jan Jansson's Novus Atlas .

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July 12th, 2013

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