Laurent FRIES (ca. 1485-1532) and Martin WALDSEEMULLER (1470-1520). Tabula Nova Totius Orbis.1541
Laurent FRIES (ca. 1485-1532) and Martin WALDSEEMULLER (1470-1520). Tabula Nova Totius Orbis.1541
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Laurent FRIES (ca. 1485-1532) and Martin WALDSEEMULLER (1470-1520)
Tabula Nova Totius Orbis
Strassburg 1522, but third state: Vienna, 1541
Sheet:16 1/4” x 21 1/4”
Double-page woodcut map of the world with a printing flaw in the top right quadrant (present in all issues) showing Europe, Africa, Asia, and parts of the Americas in the Ptolemaic tradition with parallel
zones and different illustrations including an elephant and five throned kings representing the sovereigns of Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Taprobana, and Mursuli.
The application of new discoveries to maps was not a linear process. Fries and Waldseemuller’s 1522 New Map of the Entire World is a good example. Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 world map was groundbreaking, but collectors are more familiar with his 1513 map of the world, commonly called the “Admiral’s Map” because of its reference to Christopher Columbus (see Shirley 35). The Admiral’s Map was quickly rendered archaic by new discoveries, but its elegant form (and likely its
familiarity) made it remain popular for decades. In 1522 a version of the map was published by Laurent Fries, a mathematician and engraver who had collaborated with Peter Apianus on his map. His map is closely derived from the “Admiral’s Map”, but does not include cross-directional lines. Despite the availability of more recent surveys, Fries remains ambiguous in the depiction of South America, Greenland, and most of Southeast Asia, following the somewhat archaic prototype by Waldseemüller.
In the words of Rodney Shirley (1983) this map “is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector, and is an unsophisticated but attractive rendering of what was generally known of the world at that time.”
References: Shirley 49. Harrisse 142.
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Tabula Nova Totius Orbis
Strassburg 1522, but third state: Vienna, 1541
Sheet:16 1/4” x 21 1/4”
Double-page woodcut map of the world with a printing flaw in the top right quadrant (present in all issues) showing Europe, Africa, Asia, and parts of the Americas in the Ptolemaic tradition with parallel
zones and different illustrations including an elephant and five throned kings representing the sovereigns of Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Taprobana, and Mursuli.
The application of new discoveries to maps was not a linear process. Fries and Waldseemuller’s 1522 New Map of the Entire World is a good example. Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 world map was groundbreaking, but collectors are more familiar with his 1513 map of the world, commonly called the “Admiral’s Map” because of its reference to Christopher Columbus (see Shirley 35). The Admiral’s Map was quickly rendered archaic by new discoveries, but its elegant form (and likely its
familiarity) made it remain popular for decades. In 1522 a version of the map was published by Laurent Fries, a mathematician and engraver who had collaborated with Peter Apianus on his map. His map is closely derived from the “Admiral’s Map”, but does not include cross-directional lines. Despite the availability of more recent surveys, Fries remains ambiguous in the depiction of South America, Greenland, and most of Southeast Asia, following the somewhat archaic prototype by Waldseemüller.
In the words of Rodney Shirley (1983) this map “is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector, and is an unsophisticated but attractive rendering of what was generally known of the world at that time.”
References: Shirley 49. Harrisse 142.
