Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Chaos
- Title:
- Chaos
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Date:
- 1565
- ID Number:
- REX007_0017
- Catalog Record:
- 272195
- File Name:
- REX007_0017.tif
- Work Type:
- woodcuts
prints (visual works)
- Subject:
- Iceland
Volcanoes
- Description:
- The great scholar and explorer Olaus Magnus published one of the first detailed maps of Northern countries, including Iceland, in 1539. Olaus’s later cartographic and cultural studies were important enough to be translated into a variety of languages, including vernacular Italian, as this edition illustrates. In this vignette of Mount Hekla, Iceland’s most famous active volcano, Olaus pictures the mountain as a gateway to a hellish world.
- Bibliography:
- Historia delle genti et della natvra cose settentrional. Venice: Giunti, 1565.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Icelandic
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
