Description
OLAUS MAGNUS . Poster: 42 X 29.5 cm, printed on light-cream-yellow paper at the Gutenberg exhibition held at Kjarvalsstaðir in the autumn of 1975. This Ólafur was a great historian and cartographer. – – – http://mappingiceland.com/mapauthor/olaus-magnus – Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) was a Swedish clergyman, brother of Magnus Magnus. He is best remembered as the author of a famous history book called: Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (History of the Northern Peoples), which was printed in Rome in 1555. She had 500 pictures. Olaus did more for mapping in the Nordic countries than any other man.
Publishing and printing :
German Embassy and Master Clubs in the Printing Industry, Reykjavík, 1975. Kjarvalsstaðaprent.
