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Jan Janssonius: Imperium Caroli Magni.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jan Janssonius  (1588–1664)  wikidata:Q949492 s:it:Autore:Johannes Janssonius
 
Alternative names
Jan Jansson, Jan Jansz, Jan Janszoon, Joannes Janssonius
Description Dutch cartographer, publisher, printseller and visual artist
Date of birth/death 1588 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1664 / 1664 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Arnhem Amsterdam
Work period from 1616 until 1664
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1616-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1664-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Amsterdam (1612–1664); Arnhem (1612–1612) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q949492
Title
Imperium Caroli Magni.
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English: This is a remarkable example of Jan Jansson's 1657 mapping of the Empire of Charlemagne. Covers from Spain to the Black Sea and from Denmark and Ireland to North Africa. Filled with copious notations in Latin. Decorative sailing vessels ply the Mediterranean. A decorative title cartouche appears in the upper right quadrant. This remarkable map was published in volume six, the Orbis Antiquus , of Jan Jansson's Novus Atlas .
Date 1657 (undated)
Dimensions height: 15 in (38.1 cm); width: 20.7 in (52.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,20.75U218593
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Geographicus link: CaroliMagni-jansson-1657
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Jansson, J., Novus Atlas, Sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: In quo Orbis Antiquus, Seu Geographia Vetus, Sacra & Profana exhibetur, Volume 6, 1657.

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