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Digital Image: 1662 Jansson/ Blanckaert Map of Africa during the Reign of Hadrian
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Title
Africae Antiquae et quarundam Europae Asiaeque Adiacentium Regionum, accuratra delineatio ad Historiarum lucem edita Nicolao Blancaerdo Batavo.
1662 (undated) 14.75 x 20.75 in (37.465 x 52.705 cm) 1 : 18500000
1662 (undated) 14.75 x 20.75 in (37.465 x 52.705 cm) 1 : 18500000
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Cartographer S
Jan Jansson or Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664) was born in Arnhem, Holland. He was the son of a printer and bookseller and in 1612 married into the cartographically prominent Hondius family. Following his marriage he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a book publisher. It was not until 1616 that Jansson produced his first maps, most of which were heavily influenced by Blaeu. In the mid 1630s Jansson partnered with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, to produce his important work, the eleven volume Atlas Major. About this time, Jansson's name also begins to appear on Hondius reissues of notable Mercator/Hondius atlases. Jansson's last major work was his issue of the 1646 full edition of Jansson's English Country Maps. Following Jansson's death in 1664 the company was taken over by Jansson's brother-in-law Johannes Waesberger. Waesberger adopted the name of Jansonius and published a new Atlas Contractus in two volumes with Jansson's other son-in-law Elizée Weyerstraet with the imprint 'Joannis Janssonii haeredes' in 1666. These maps also refer to the firm of Janssonius-Waesbergius. The name of Moses Pitt, an English map publisher, was added to the Janssonius-Waesbergius imprint for maps printed in England for use in Pitt's English Atlas. More by this mapmaker...
Nicolaas Blanckaert (1624 - 1703) was a Dutch philologist, historian, and professor. Although his immediate family is known, virtually nothing is known of his background and education. Is father, Stefan Blanckaert, was a schout (sheriff). While he is little known now, during his lifetime he was a prolific and respected author, editor and scholar. He published a broad array of translations from the Greek, including in 1683 Harpocration's Lexicon, the first published translation of that work (virtually the only lexicon of ancient Greek oratory to survive.) By 1662 he was professor of history and politics in Leiden, and was a historian for the Order of Zeeland. He would in 1669 become professor of Greek at the University of Franeker, a position he probably held until his death in that city. Learn More...
Source
Hornius, G., Description of the Earth, or Ancient Geography, both Sacred and Profane, (Amsterdam: Janssonius van Waesberghe) 1700.
References
OCLC 774072095. Not in Norwich.