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C1596
Tabula Europae X.
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Famous c.16th Ptolemaic map of Greece, published in 1596 by the Heirs of Simone Calignani de Karera and edited by Giovanni Antonio Magini of Padua. Latin text edition. The map was partly based on Jacopo Gastaldi. From Geografia di Claudio … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Tabula Europae X.
Date:
C1596
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
172mm
x 130mm
Paper Size:
213mm
x 160mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1596
Description:
Famous c.16th Ptolemaic map of Greece, published in 1596 by the Heirs of Simone Calignani de Karera and edited by Giovanni Antonio Magini of Padua. Latin text edition. The map was partly based on Jacopo Gastaldi.
From Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino.
References:
Stevens, H. Ptolemy's Geography. London 1973 :: p.52.
Zacharakis, C. A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 1477-1800 Athens 2009 :: 2843/1853 ill.p. 253..
Phillips, P. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington 1973 :: 372.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3408473 (text on verso not noted)
Stevens, H. Ptolemy's Geography. London 1973 :: p.52.
Zacharakis, C. A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 1477-1800 Athens 2009 :: 2843/1853 ill.p. 253..
Phillips, P. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington 1973 :: 372.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3408473 (text on verso not noted)
Claudius Ptolemy (100 - 170)
Ptolemy was a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, geographer, astrologer and author of the Geography, also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, which comprised the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire written c. AD 150. It was a revision of a lost atlas by Marinus the Greek, a geographer, cartographer and mathematician from the Roman province of Tyre using additional Roman and Persian gazetteers and new principles. Its translation into Arabic in the 9th century and Latin in 1406 was highly influential on the geographical knowledge and cartographic knowledge of the medieval Caliphate and Renaissance Europe. No Greek manuscript of the Geography survives from earlier than the late 13th century (c.1295), the earliest is in the Vatican library. A letter written by the Byzantine monk Maximus Planudes records that he searched for one in the Chora Monastery in the summer of 1295 and the earliest surviving manuscript may have been one of those he then assembled. The three earliest surviving manuscript versions with maps are those from Constantinople (Istanbul) based on Planudes's work. The first Latin translation from these was made in 1406 or 1407 by Jacobus Angelus in Florence, Italy, under the name Geographia Claudii Ptolemaei and first printed in Venice 1475 by Hermanus Levilapis (Herman Lichtensein of Cologne) without maps. This was followed in 1478 by a Roman edition with twenty seven maps printed by Arnoldus Buckinck. In 1482 the famous Ulm edition was translated by Leonardus Hol with 32 woodcut maps, 5 of which were new modern maps. In 1513 one of the most important editions was issued by Martin Waldseemuller with 47 woodcut maps of which 20 were new modern maps including one devoted to the new world. In 1540 a new and important edition, titled Cosmographia was revised and edited by Sebastian Munster and printed by Henricus Petri at Basle. Munster redesigned the maps and added a geographical appendix. The Geography continued to be issued by various publishers who included new geographical information to the maps.
