A COMPARISON OF RELATED CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS OF
CROATIAN CITIES FROM THE 16TH CENTURY
I. Kljajic, M. Lapaine
Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb, Chair of
Geoinformation, Zagreb, Croatia
itunjic@geof.hr,
mlapaine@geof.hr
Much of
Croatian cartographic heritage is kept at foreign archives, libraries, museums
and similar institutions. Some cartographic representations of Croatian cities
originating from the 16th century can be found in atlases with cartographic
representations of other cities in the area from the Adriatic Sea to
Transylvania. This concerns representations bound in five manuscript atlases.
Two such atlases (signature Cod. 8607 and Cod. 8609) are kept at the Collection
of Manuscripts, Documents and Heritage of the Austrian National Library (Handschriften-, Autographen- und Nachlass-Sammlung der Österreichischen
Nationalbibliothek) in Vienna, two (signature Schr. XXVI, F. 96, Nr. 6 and
Schr. XXVI, F. 96, Nr. 11) at the Saxon Central State Archive (Sächsisches
Hauptstaatsarchiv) in Dresden and one (signature Hfk. Bd. XV) at the Main Land
Archive (Generallandesarchiv) in Karlsruhe.
Certain
Croatian and foreign scientists (cartographers, geographers, historians, art
historians, architects, civil engineers, and others) worked on the representations
from only one atlas, without comparing them with the ones from other atlases.
The researchers have often stated different data about the number of the
atlases and their contents, number of sheets of a particular atlas, as well as
the number of copies of representations of a particular city. Furthermore, same
representations of a particular city were dated in different periods, and even
centuries, their authorship was attributed to different persons. Different
signatures for the same representation or atlas have been listed in the papers
published so far, or the institutions in which the atlases are kept have been
stated incorrectly. Besides, sometimes no data about the original were given
next to the reproduction of the representation, and neither in the text.
The basic
data about the each atlas, determined on the basis of own research are given in
this paper. Each of the five mentioned atlases does not contain the same number
of sheets, and neither the same number of cartographic representations. There
are 18 representations of Croatian cities in three of the atlases, while one of
the atlases contains 13 representations, and one of them 14 representations of
Croatian cities. The research results of obtained comparison of related copies
of cartographic representations of those Croatian cities (Zagreb, Rijeka, Senj,
Križevci, Koprivnica, Sisak, Otočac, Đurđevac, Cirkvena,
Dabar) for which representations in all five atlases exist are presented.