Carta Marina

The Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum mirabilium ac rerum in eis contentarum diligentissime eleborata anno dni 1539 ( " chart and description of the Nordic countries and their miracles, carefully executed in 1539 "). is the earliest ( by today's standards reasonably correct ) Map of northern Europe, which contains numerous details and location information.

Description

The card has the dimensions of 1.70 m width × 1.25 m height and was made by the Swedish bishop Olaus Magnus in twelve years of work. The first copies were produced in 1539 in Venice. There were only nine copies, and as Pope Paul III. the map with a kind of early, decade-long copyright occupied that prevented the spread, they fell into oblivion after it was mentioned in 1574 by Josiah Simler last time.

It was only discovered in 1886, the historian Oscar burner output of the card in the Munich Court and State Library. A second map was discovered in Switzerland in 1961 and incorporated in 1962 in the collection of Carolina Rediviva the Swedish University of Uppsala.

The also written by Olaus Magnus Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus represents a description of the country of Scandinavia and emerged as a comment to this map work. The card is this divided into 9 fields that carry the letters A to I.

There are only a few tickets Scandinavia earlier date known as that of Claudius Claussön Swart to 1427, and that of Jacob Ziegler from the year 1532.