Andreas Walsperger
The world map of Andreas Walsperger is a Christian-influenced medieval world map. It is equipped with the so-called Zeitz world map one of the few remaining original mappae mundi from the German-speaking world and is considered a landmark of historical cartography.
Creator
Andreas Walsperger was born around the year 1415 as the son of a carpenter in Radkersburg. In 1434 he became a Benedictine monk at St. Peter in Salzburg, but he left the monastery 1442nd Further stations of his life as well as his year of death are not recorded, if one disregards the fact that he 1448/9 manufactured the world map in Konstanz.
Map
The cycle map on parchment has the dimensions 57.7 x 75 cm. The map shows the Round the earth, which is aligned gesüdet - ie so that the north is at the bottom. The holy city of Jerusalem is located approximately in the center of the disc and the ocean surrounds the entire Earth disk to where Africa is up to the spheres.
A closer look at the map shows the logical problems in the representation of the Earth as enclosed by water nearly round disc, but surrounded by the seven spheres of the celestial sphere according to Ptolemy. The map extends from the flat earth as the center of creation, which is surrounded by heavenly spheres and topped by a " sky of crystal ". In the outer sphere of the names of the Heavenly Host to be named, inward follow the sphere of the fixed stars, the planets and the sun; between the names of the zodiac signs and the winds are noted.
Legend
The legend reads in translation:
History
Presumed owner in the 16th century were the Fugger before 1622 by Maximilian I of Bavaria to Pope Gregory XV. came. The card is now in the Vatican Library Palatina (Lat. 1362 B).
In 1987, the Belser Verlag Zurich a facsimile edition out: World Map of Andrew Walsperger / Erl of Edmond Pognon. - Faks outp. [ d Kt ] Pal. Latin 1362B, 1448, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. . Zurich: Belser, 1987 - 1 Kt; Fullpage. 59 x 72 cm ( Codices selecti e Vaticanis quam simillime expressi; 52)