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Lumen Historiarum per Occidentem.

An exceptional c. 1652 map of Europe by Jan Jansson. Centered on Italy, this map covers from Spain to Greece and from England to northern Africa. Designed by Frans van Haren (Haraeus), a Dutch theologian and globe maker active from about 1615 to 1624. Depicts Europe as know to the Ancients. Cartographically this map exhibits heavy influence from a very similar map of the same name published by A. Ortelius in his 1597 Parergon. Based on Greek and Roman sources including Pliny, Strabo, Virgil, Caesar, and others. Ships and monsters decorate the seas. A decorative baroque title cartouche appears in the lower left quadrant. This remarkable map was published in volume six, the Orbis Antiquus, of Jan Jansson's Novus Atlas.

Date
1652
Place
Europe
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
atlas page
Original size
4,000 × 3,183 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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"Lumen Historiarum per Occidentem." (1652). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1852_Jansson_Map_of_Europe_in_Antiquity_-_Geographicus_-_EuropeAncient-jansson-1652.jpg

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