Vorzeichnungen für die Große Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 7: Vogelschauplan größeren Maßstabes von Bayern an der böhmischen Grenze, diese ist rot markiert - BSB Cod.icon. 142(7
Description:
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
BSB-Provenienz: Nachlass Philipp Apian (1531-1589), München, alte
kurfürstliche Hofbibliothek vor 1803
Altsignatur: Cim 177
Kolorierte Federzeichnung
Philipp Apian
Eingezeichnet sind außerdem Stadtsilhouetten, Markbäume,
Gelände- und Vegetationsmerkmale Extent:
7 Bl à 32 × 21,2 - 44,2 cm zu einer Rolle zusammengefügt -
Papier Alternative Title:
Cim. 177 Abstract:
Englische Version: Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht
V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of
Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first
mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he
completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:45,000,
which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the
original that was produced by 1756 also was destroyed in the Second
World War. However, the manuscript sketches to this “Great Map of
Bavaria” survived, and nowadays are divided into seven scrolls
with the numbering of the parts from south to north. The one
presented here was produced in Ingolstadt in 1554 or 1555, at the
very beginning of Apian's work, and contains a bird's-eye view of
Bavaria at the border with Bohemia, the latter marked in red. The
view extends from Furth im Wald, a town in the present-day district
of Cham (Bavaria), in the west, to the Grosser Arber in the east.
At the request of the duke, Apian reduced the scale to 1:135,000
and prepared the map for woodblock printing. Jost Amman undertook
the artwork for the borders and cartouches. This second version was
issued in 1568 and remained the official map of Bavaria until the
19th century. In the course of his surveying work, Apian also
collected material for a Descriptio Bavariae (description of
Bavaria) and had views of castles, settlements, and landscapes
prepared for the work. His death, however, in 1589 prevented the
printing of the work, which was to have combined the maps with an
illustrated description of the country. Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria
bought both the unpublished manuscript and the aforementioned seven
scrolls of 1554-55 for 1,000 gulden, which then came to his court
library in Munich, the forerunner of the Bavarian State Library,
where these works have been part of the collections of ever since.
// Autor: Traudl Seifert Subjects:
1563
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Topographic maps
Bavaria Publication Statement:
München ? 1555
