1514-1589.
Fransk-nederländsk boktryckare, tryckte i Antwerpen från 1550 bl.a. liturgiska verk och en 'Biblia polyglotta' (8 bd, 1569). P. hade bl.a. en filialofficin i Leiden, som 1586 övertogs av svärsonen F. Raphelengh. P:s efterträdare i ANtwerpen blev hans svärson Jan Moerentorf (Moretus), under vars son, Balthasar Moretus (1574-1641), P. P. Rubens knöts till företaget. - P.-trycken (o. 1600 torde finnas) utmärka sig för vacker utstyrsel och praktiskt format samt stor noggrannhet i tekniken. Tryckeriet ägde bestånd i Antwerpen till 1876, då det inköptes av staden och blev Musée Plantin-Moretus.
Christophe Plantin ombesörjde efter 1579 utgivningen av Ortelius atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'.
Bland arbeten.
Biblia polyglotta.
Svensk uppslagsbok.
Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
1688-1766. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf. Släkt med familjen Sanson. Blev tidigt inblandad i familjens kartografiska verksamhet och övertog företaget efter sin farbror Pierre Moulard Sanson. 1748 gav han ut en 'Petit Atlas' i två band (203 kartor) och 1757 'Atlas Universel' med 108 kartor. Ritningen av kartorna överläts åt duktiga konstnärer som även utsmyckade dem med kartuscher. Hovet, med Madame Pompadour i spetsen, gav sitt stöd till detta. 1762 utom 'Atlas portatif' innehållande 52 kartor. - Förutom atlaser gav han även ut andra geografiska verk, som 'Géographie sacrée et historique de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament' i tre band (1742) och 'Usage des globes celeste et terrestre' (1752). Robert de Vaugondy hade titeln som 'Géographe ordinaire du Roi' och var medlem av 'l'Académie Rle des Sciences et Belle-Lettres' i Nancy. Hans verk övertogs av sonen Didier Robert de Vaugondy (se denne).
Bland arbeten.
Petit Atlas.
Atlas Universel.
Atlas portatif.
Géographie sacrée et historique de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament.
Usage des globes celeste et terrestre.
Nouv. biogr. gen.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Värmdö skeppslag (med Vaxholm). Kartlagt 1902.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.
