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Title

[Cosmographia.

Author

Ptolemy, active 2nd century.

Publication

Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 1482]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Angelo, Jacopo d', 14th-15th century.
• Nicolaus Germanus, dom, 15th century.

Description

133 l. incl. diagrs., 32 maps. illus.; 41.5 cm. (fol.)

Subjects

• Early maps
• Geography, Ancient

Note

• l. 1a: Beatissimo Patri Pavlo Se / cvndo Potifici Maximo. / Donis Nicolavs Germanvs / N / On me fugit beatissime pater. Cũq[us] summo / ingenio exquisitaq[us] doctrina ptolomeus cos / mographus pinxisse ...
• l. 2a, col. 2: ... Clavdii Ptholomei Viri / Alexandrini Cosmogra / phie Liber Primvs Incipit / In Qvo Differt Cosmogra phia A Corographia. Capi. I.
• Colophon, l. 133b: Clavdii Ptolomei Viri A / lexandrini Cosmographie / Octavvs Et Vltimus Liber / Explicit / Opvs Donni Nicolai Germa / ni Secvndum Ptolomevm / Finit. / Anno MCCCCLXXXII. Avgv / sti Vero Kalendas. XVII. / Imprssvm [sic] Vlme Per Ingeni / osvm Virvm Leonardvm / Hol Prefati Oppidi Civis[?]
• Roman type (Proctor 2556); 2 columns, 44-45 lines. With initial spcaes, hisoriated and ornamental woodcut initials and signature marks; without catchwords and foliation. On the verso of all but 5 of the maps is descriptive text within ornamental woodcut borders. Initials, maps, borders and 2 diagrams colored by hand.
• Signatures: a¹⁰, b-g⁸, h¹²⁻¹, 64 l. unsigned.
• Translated by Jacopo d'Angelo.
• With printed text on l. 133a.
• "Maps ... redrawn, corrected and improved ... by Nicolaus Donis ... [who] also added the five modern maps, one of which contains the first printed representation of Greenland, laid down as a peninsula of northern Europe under the name of Engronelant."--Sabin 66472.

Indexed In (note)

• Hain-Copinger
• Copinger
• Panzer
• BMC
• JCB, 1919
• Dibdin: Bibliotheca Spenceriana
• Phillips: Geographical atlases
• Winsor: Bibliography of Ptolomy's Geography

Call Number

*KB+ 1482 (Ptolemaeus, C. [Cosmographia)

OCLC

28258195

Author

Ptolemy, active 2nd century.

Title

[Cosmographia.

Imprint

Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 1482]

Indexed In:

Hain-Copinger 13539

Copinger 4976

Panzer, III, 535, no. 28

BMC, II, 538.IC.9305

JCB, 1919, I, 11

Dibdin: Bibliotheca Spenceriana, 392

Phillips: Geographical atlases, 353

Winsor: Bibliography of Ptolomy's Geography, p. 5

Local Note

With engraver's inscription at the top of the first map: .Jnsculptum est per Johannẽ. Schnitzer de Arm[esset]heim. /

Imperfect: hinged throughout; first leaf inlaid.

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Added Author

Angelo, Jacopo d', 14th-15th century. Translator

Nicolaus Germanus, dom, 15th century.

Research Call Number

*KB+ 1482 (Ptolemaeus, C. [Cosmographia)