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Matthäus Merian
: English: Frankfurt (Great Bird's Eye View as seen from the south)
Deutsch: Frankfurt (Große Vogelschau von Süden) (
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English:
Frankfurt (Great Bird's Eye View as seen from the south)
Deutsch:
Frankfurt (Große Vogelschau von Süden)
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| Date | 1628 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | copper engraving print | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | reproduction: height: 71.5 cm (28.1 in); width: 102.6 cm (40.3 in) , original: height: 71.8 cm (28.2 in); width: 103.7 cm (40.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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C 93970
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| Inscriptions |
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FRANCOFURTI AD MOENUM, URBIS IMPERIALIS, ELECTIONI ROM: REGUM ATQ. IMPERATORUM CONSECRATAE, EMPORIIQUE TAM GERMANIAE QUAM TOTIUS EUROPAE CELEBERRIUMI, ACCURATA DELINEATIO.
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Gallia Lugdunum miratur, at Itala tellus
Rem Venetam, Hispanos, operosa Sevillia iactat, Londinum Tamesis, speciosa Antverpia Scaldem. Ast ego Teuthonicas inter caput altius Vrbes Effero Francfvrtum , qua Pons tua Moene fluenta Saxeus, Urbis opus, quindeno fornice sternit Saxonibus Francos clarißima nomina jungens Sola ego Cæsaribus quondam delecta creandis Glorior, et celebris mercatu duplices nomen Vsque ad Hamaxobios peregrina merce propago. Est foecundus ager, populus cum divite censu, Cæsaribus seruata fides, prudensque Senatus. Hæc mihi si constent, quis me neget efie beatam? Sis, voveo, / I L Gotofredus . bottom:
Matthaeus Merianus Basiliensis, Civis et Calcographus
Francofurtensis mensus est, delineauit, expreßit, cae- lauit, iurisq. publici fecit, Anno 1628. bottom right:
Vrbs ego Mercurio sacra sum, Phoeboq. Ioviq.
Castalijs Musis, Palladiaeq. Deae. Me Bromius, me flaua Ceres, Pomonaq. blando Lumine respiciunt, me quoque magna Pales. Nec Charites Nymphasq. mihi Venus alma negauit: Quis charum superis me neget eße locum. I. L. G. bottom left:
Nobilissimis, Magnificis, Amplissimis,
Prudentissimisq. D Dnn. Praetori, Consulibus, Scabinis, et Senatoribus, inclytae Vrbis et Reipubl. Francofurtensis: Nec non Vniversis eiusdem Ciuibus Viris Praestantißimis, Humanißimis, Integerrimisq. Dominis Fautoribus. et Amicis suis, in Reuerentiae, Subiectionis, Gratitudinis, Amoris et Bene- uolentiae Signum, lubens merito, Donat, dicat, Consecrat. Matthæus Merianus. Anno, M D C XX VIII. |
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| Notes | 1. Auflage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Dezernat Planung und Wirtschaft, Stadtvermessungsamt, Dezernat Kultur und Wissenschaft, Institut für Stadtgeschichte (Hrsg.): Mein Frankfurt >> Historische Karten. CD-ROM. Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main / Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main 2007. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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