Bertius’ Map of Franconia Mapmaker(s)_Thomas Badeslade as distributed to passengers

as distributed to passengers

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and the author of the second work is known to have lived during the reign of Marcus Aurelius 161-180 A

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Bertius’ Map of Franconia Mapmaker(s)_Thomas Badeslade as distributed to passengersThis map of Franconia, including Frankfurt and Nuremberg in modern Bavaria, is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them