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Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
Secunda etas mundi, [Nuremberg: 1493 or later]. Handcoloured woodcut world map, Latin text (stained at centrefold and repaired on verso), 400 x 555mm. Shirley 19: "The world map is a robust woodcut taken from Ptolemy without great attention to detail. The border contains twelve dour windheads while the map is supported in three of its corners by the solemn figures of Ham, Shem and Japhet taken from the Old Testament. What gives the map its present-day interest and attraction are the panels representing the outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the earth. There are seven such scenes to the left of the map and a further fourteen on its reverse."
Secunda etas mundi, [Nuremberg: 1493 or later]. Handcoloured woodcut world map, Latin text (stained at centrefold and repaired on verso), 400 x 555mm. Shirley 19: "The world map is a robust woodcut taken from Ptolemy without great attention to detail. The border contains twelve dour windheads while the map is supported in three of its corners by the solemn figures of Ham, Shem and Japhet taken from the Old Testament. What gives the map its present-day interest and attraction are the panels representing the outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the earth. There are seven such scenes to the left of the map and a further fourteen on its reverse."
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