Bird's Eye View of Bavaria at the Border to Bohemia, Marked In Red. (Vorzeichnungen Für Die Grosse Karte Bayerns Von 1563, Teil 7: Vogelschauplan Grösseren Masstabes Von Bayern an Der Böhmischen Grenze, Diese Ist Rot Markiert) 1554

Old map of Bavaria, Bayerisch Eisenstein, Furth Im Wald, Germany.

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 1:40,000, 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, the highest peak of the Bavarian-Bohemian mountain ridge (elevation, 1,455.5 meters), in the east. At the request of the duke, Apian reduced the scale to 1:145,000 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 Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria bought both the unpublished manuscript and the aforementioned seven scrolls of 1554-55 for 1,000 gulden, which then came to his court library in Munich, the forerunner of the Bavarian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.
Created by Duke of Bavaria Albrecht V, Philippus Apianus in 1554.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "This description of the work was written by Traudl Seifert. BSB shelfmark: Cod.icon. 142(7"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map of 7 folios, paper ; 32 x 279.6 centimeters.
• Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
• Content in German.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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