Sophianos was well known as an expert on Greek history and geography. He was sent to Greece in about 1543 by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to Venice, to acquire Greek manuscripts for the Escurial Library. It is about this time – possibly in 1540, the date found at the end of Sophianos text on this map – that Sophianus compiled his great map of Greece, although there is no surviving example.
In 1544, Johann Oporinus, a printer and publisher in Basle, published an eight-sheet version of Sophianos map, cut by Master Christoph of Strasburg. Of this earliest printing, there is also no known extant example. Indeed, the earliest surviving printing of the map recorded by Zacharakis or Karrow was printed by Johann Schroeter in Basle in 1601.
It appears that Oporinus reprinted the map in 1545 to accompany his edition of Gerbelius “In Descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani, Praefatio….”. Although the book gives instructions on colouring the map, and contains additional gazetteer, the map seems not to ha...
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Descriptio nova totivs Graeciae per Nicolavm Sophianvm. Basle, 1544-1545, large woodcut wall-map of Greece, on eight sheets uncut, each sheet approx. 380 x 280mm., with an additional sheet with letterpress gazetteer. Of great rarity. The earliest surviving wall-map of Greece and the first significant modern map of Greece, compiled by Nickolaos Sophianos, a Greek cartographer from Corfu, born of a noble family there. This example is apparently the second state of the map. It retains the date 1544 just above the scale bar on the bottom right hand skeet, but the letterpress text in the left hand cartouche on the lower left sheet may have been reset, in whole or part, as it ends with the date “prid[ie] Calend[is]. Septembr[is]. Anno salutis publiae M D X L V”.
Sotheby's. Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece: Sophianos 2242; Karrow, Mapmakerers of the Sixteenth Century, 71/1.2.
1525-1571.
Hans Rudolf Manuel (Deutsch) was a painter, designer and poet. Probably apprenticed with Maximilian Wischack in Basel in the early 1540s, he often designed for publishers in that city, although he lived in Bern. Less than a dozen known independent pen drawings and stained-glass designs bear dates (1540-50) and the monogram RMD. He designed greatly acclaimed topographical views of cities for Cosmographia. From 1562 he was governor of Morges in the canton of Waadt.
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Född 1/6 1833 i Ulricehamn, död 1873 14/5 i Göteborg.
Trägravör. Utbildat sig på egen hand. Känd för sina arbeten i kork och trä. Vid sin död hade hon för världsutställningen i Wien (1873) färdig en efterbildning i kork av Karl XV:s sista oljefärgstavla.
Göteborgs historiska museum äger en litografisk avbildning av en bordsskiva i kork, näver och svamp (Daedalea quersina) 'Minnen av Sverige' där i 13 större eller mindre bildfält återges Stockholms slott, Gripsholm, Skokloster, inloppet till Karlskrona, Mora kyrka med flera sevärdheter.
Enligt annons i Göteborgs adresskalender för 1871 utförde hon träsnitt 'till vetenskapliga arbeten, läroböcker, kataloger, vignetter för alla yrken m.m.' samt stöd till tjänst med arbeten i kork: 'uti taflor, läspulpeter, portefeuiller, lampskärmar m.m. efter eleganta teckningar och bekommas färdigmonterade'.
På industriutställningen i Malmö 1865 belönades hon med medalj.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Dyborre, Stratiotes aloides - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
