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Perugia, by J. Janssonius. 1657

 COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "Now let us take a closer look at the situation of the city of Perugia. It lies on a hill in the Apennines and is shaped like a star because most of the surrounding countryside is rolling, dotted with fertile and picturesque little hills, on which fine wine, olives, figs, apples and other excellent fruits are grown. Below the city, towards Assisi, and also in the direction of Todi near the Tiber, are charming and fertile plains and arable land on which wheat and other cereals are cultivated. The city is a natural and secure fortress. It is adorned with magnificent buildings, both patrician houses and churches, and it boasts a celebrated fountain gushing with abundant water at the town centre."

Seen from the south in a bird's-eye view, the city sprawls across several hills and, in places, is protected by city walls and gates that give it a fortress-like appearance. Some of its most important churches are on the periphery: on the northern edge of the city are Sant'Angelo at the centre and, near the southern boundary, San Pietro with a flat roof. Slightly above it in the picture is San Domenico. The complex comprising San Francesco and San Bernardino is on the western edge of the city. At the centre is the cathedral of San Lorenzo, a Gothic hall church. In front of the cathedral tower stands the celebrated Fontana Maggiore. An early ingenious settlement, Perugia, flourished in the Middle Ages. It belonged to the Papal States from 1520 to 1680. Today, the city with its university founded in 1276, is the capital of the province of Umbria  

The Janssonius Family

Joannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618, he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu’s bookshop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu when copying Blaeu’s Licht der Zeevaert after the expiration of the privilege in 1620. His activities concerned the publication of atlases, books, single maps, and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631, he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius.

In the early 1640s, Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s son and successor, in atlas production, prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. Other atlases published by Janssonius are Mercator’s Atlas Minor, Hornius’s historical atlas (1652), the townbooks in eight volumes (1657), Cellarius’s Atlas Coelestis and several sea atlases and pilot guides.

After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes Janssonius. Van Waesbergen added Janssonius's name to his own.

In 1676, Joannes Janssonius’s heirs sold by auction “all the remaining Atlases in Latin, French, High and Low German, as well as the Stedeboecken in Latin, in 8 volumes, bound and unbound, maps, plates belonging to the Atlas and Stedeboecken.” The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck.


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Perugia, by J. Janssonius.

Title: Perusia.

Date of the first edition: 1572.
Date of this map: 1657.

Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 360 x 435mm (14¼ x 17¼ inches).
Sheet size: 460 x 565mm (18 x 22¼ inches).
Verso: Latin text.
Condition: Original coloured, some creasing at lower centre, flattened.
Condition Rating: A.

From: Theatrum Celebriorum Urbium Italiae, aliarumque in Insulis Maris Mediterranei. Amsterdam, J. Janssonius [1657]. (Van der Krogt 4, p. 282, 42:15)

 COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "Now let us take a closer look at the situation of the city of Perugia. It lies on a hill in the Apennines and is shaped like a star because most of the surrounding countryside is rolling, dotted with fertile and picturesque little hills, on which fine wine, olives, figs, apples and other excellent fruits are grown. Below the city, towards Assisi, and also in the direction of Todi near the Tiber, are charming and fertile plains and arable land on which wheat and other cereals are cultivated. The city is a natural and secure fortress. It is adorned with magnificent buildings, both patrician houses and churches, and it boasts a celebrated fountain gushing with abundant water at the town centre."

Seen from the south in a bird's-eye view, the city sprawls across several hills and, in places, is protected by city walls and gates that give it a fortress-like appearance. Some of its most important churches are on the periphery: on the northern edge of the city are Sant'Angelo at the centre and, near the southern boundary, San Pietro with a flat roof. Slightly above it in the picture is San Domenico. The complex comprising San Francesco and San Bernardino is on the western edge of the city. At the centre is the cathedral of San Lorenzo, a Gothic hall church. In front of the cathedral tower stands the celebrated Fontana Maggiore. An early ingenious settlement, Perugia, flourished in the Middle Ages. It belonged to the Papal States from 1520 to 1680. Today, the city with its university founded in 1276, is the capital of the province of Umbria  

The Janssonius Family

Joannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618, he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu’s bookshop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu when copying Blaeu’s Licht der Zeevaert after the expiration of the privilege in 1620. His activities concerned the publication of atlases, books, single maps, and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631, he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius.

In the early 1640s, Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s son and successor, in atlas production, prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. Other atlases published by Janssonius are Mercator’s Atlas Minor, Hornius’s historical atlas (1652), the townbooks in eight volumes (1657), Cellarius’s Atlas Coelestis and several sea atlases and pilot guides.

After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes Janssonius. Van Waesbergen added Janssonius's name to his own.

In 1676, Joannes Janssonius’s heirs sold by auction “all the remaining Atlases in Latin, French, High and Low German, as well as the Stedeboecken in Latin, in 8 volumes, bound and unbound, maps, plates belonging to the Atlas and Stedeboecken.” The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck.


References: Van der Krogt 4 - p. 1278, #3366, state 2; Fauser - #10785