Abstract
The presentation will introduce a publisher and a physician Nicolaus Claudianus (Mikuláš Klaudyán). It will also describe parts of the illustrated broadsheet with the map of the Czech Kingdom that was printed in 1518 in Nuremberg.
It will focus in particular on a cartographic monument with communication and religious content. It was extended in Münster's Cosmography (1545).
It was also published in a Czech version that was edited by Zikmund of Púchov (1554). A Venice copy by Zaltieri is also well known (1566).
A number of interesting handwritten copies, that are today in collections of Rychnov nad Kněžnou castle, in National Museum or in the Map Collection of the Faculty of Science of Charles University, has arisen since the 16th century. The work was published in the edition Monumenta Cartographica Bohemiae in the Geographical Institute of the Faculty of Science of Charles University in the 20th century.
After the World War II it was copied and described by B.Šimák at the Masaryk University in Brno. Commemorative coin of the Czech National Bank was published on the 500th anniversary.