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Norbegia et Gottia
| Reference: | S48882 |
| Author | Laurent FRIES |
| Year: | 1535 |
| Zone: | Scandinavia |
| Printed: | Strasbourg |
| Measures: | 560 x 410 mm |
€2,800.00
- New
| Reference: | S48882 |
| Author | Laurent FRIES |
| Year: | 1535 |
| Zone: | Scandinavia |
| Printed: | Strasbourg |
| Measures: | 560 x 410 mm |
€2,800.00
Description
A magnificent example of the 1535 edition of Laurent Fries's map of Scandinavia, which extends to Iceland, Scotland, England, Finland, and the Baltic Sea.
One of the first "modern" maps of the region was first published in Strasbourg by Johannes Gruninger in 1522. It is based on the Waldseemuller map of 1513, but with some modifications.
Indeed, as noted in William Ginsberg's bibliography, "Waldseemuller's map of Scandinavia appeared in the supplement section of his modern maps. A faithful copy of the Ulm map published in 1482 . . . Norway is shown as "norbega." Most of the same cities are also included—"astro" (Oslo), "begensis" (Bergen), "nodrosia (Nidranos or Trondheim), and "Stauargerensis" (cf. Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482–1601 pp. 27–33).
Regarding Fries's changes, Ginsberg notes that the shape of the reworked map of Scandinavia differs significantly from the 1513 version. The height and length at the top are essentially identical, but the left side is now almost vertical, and the width along the bottom edge is about fourteen centimeters less. Fries also added four lines of descriptive text.
Lorenz (Laurent) Fries was born in Alsace around 1490. He studied medicine, apparently spending time at the universities of Pavia, Piacenza, Montpellier, and Vienna. After completing his studies, Fries worked as a physician in various locations before settling in Strasbourg around 1519. During his stay in Strasbourg, Fries met the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, a member of the St. Die scholarly group that included Walter Lud, Martin Ringmann, and Martin Waldseemüller, among others.
The first edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia" edited by Fries was published in Strasbourg in 1522, with the maps copied and re-engraved from those of Martin Waldseemüller in Ptolemy's 1520 edition, and the text edited by Pirckheimer. A second edition was printed in Strasbourg in 1525. After the deaths of Fries and Gruninger, the matrices were purchased by the brothers Melchior and Gaspar Treschel, who printed a third edition in Lyon in 1535. For the text, the two editors relied on the supervision of Michael Servetus, who oversaw the revision of Pirckheimer's text. Finally, in 1541, Gaspar Treechsel published this fourth edition in Vienne, in the Dauphiné, again with Servetus's text. Compared to the first Strasbourg edition of 1522, this edition's text underwent numerous changes, corrections, and additions, but the woodcuts remained unchanged.
Woodcut, finely hand-colored, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia
William Ginsberg, Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482-1601 pp. 27-33, n. 6.
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Lorenz (Laurent) Fries was born in Alsace in about 1490. He studied medicine, apparently spending time at the universities of Pavia, Piacenza, Montpellier and Vienna. After completing his medical studies, , Fries worked as a physician in several places, before settling in Strassburg, in about 1519. In Strassburg, Fries met the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Die group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Martin Ringmann and Martin Waldseemuller.From 1520 to 1525, Fries worked with Gruninger as a cartographic editor, exploiting the corpus of material that Waldseemuller had created. Fries' first venture into mapmaking was in 1520, when he executed a reduction of Martin Waldseemuller's wall-map of the World, published in 1507. Next Fries’ project was a new edition of the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, which was published by Johann Koberger in 1522. Fries evidently edited the maps, in most cases simply producing a reduction of the equivalent map from Waldseemuller's 1513 edition of the Geographie Opus Novissima, printed by Johann Schott. Fries also prepare three new maps for the Geographie: maps of South-East Asia and the East Indies, China and the World, but the geography of these derives from Waldseemuller's world map of 1507. The 1522 edition of Fries work , now very rare, was not commercially successful. In 1525, an improved edition was issued, from the notes of Johannes Regiomontanus. After Grüninger's death in 1531, the business was continued by his son Christoph, who seems to have sold the materials for the Ptolemy to two Lyon publishers, the brothers Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, who published a joint edition in 1535, before Gaspar Trechsel published an edition in his own right in 1541.
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Lorenz (Laurent) Fries was born in Alsace in about 1490. He studied medicine, apparently spending time at the universities of Pavia, Piacenza, Montpellier and Vienna. After completing his medical studies, , Fries worked as a physician in several places, before settling in Strassburg, in about 1519. In Strassburg, Fries met the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Die group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Martin Ringmann and Martin Waldseemuller.From 1520 to 1525, Fries worked with Gruninger as a cartographic editor, exploiting the corpus of material that Waldseemuller had created. Fries' first venture into mapmaking was in 1520, when he executed a reduction of Martin Waldseemuller's wall-map of the World, published in 1507. Next Fries’ project was a new edition of the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, which was published by Johann Koberger in 1522. Fries evidently edited the maps, in most cases simply producing a reduction of the equivalent map from Waldseemuller's 1513 edition of the Geographie Opus Novissima, printed by Johann Schott. Fries also prepare three new maps for the Geographie: maps of South-East Asia and the East Indies, China and the World, but the geography of these derives from Waldseemuller's world map of 1507. The 1522 edition of Fries work , now very rare, was not commercially successful. In 1525, an improved edition was issued, from the notes of Johannes Regiomontanus. After Grüninger's death in 1531, the business was continued by his son Christoph, who seems to have sold the materials for the Ptolemy to two Lyon publishers, the brothers Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, who published a joint edition in 1535, before Gaspar Trechsel published an edition in his own right in 1541.
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