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[PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Untitled map of the World. Ulm: Leinhart Holle, 1482].
Hand-coloured woodcut map of the world, (410 x 560mm). An untitled world map, with woodcut inscription by the woodcutter, Insculptum est per Johanne Schnitzer de Armszheim (engraved by Johann, woodcutter from Armszheim), the map coloured in a contemporary hand, the seas in blue, mountains in brown, lakes in blue, islands in green and red, the wind heads yellow on a light blue ground with red flecks in the hair, tropics and equator in red, yellow borders. (Slightly stained at lower corners, lower margin shaved with loss of outer border line, affecting letters of one wind head.) Window mount.
AN IMPORTANT WORLD MAP, the first woodcut version of a Ptolemaic world map and the first to be made outside Italy. This version also attempts to update the Ptolemaic image, probably based on a manuscript of Donnus Nicolaus Germanus of the 1470's, the map showing a rudimentary Scandinavia and Greenland in an extension across the upper border between the wind heads. Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps 1472-1500, 179; Shirley 10.
Hand-coloured woodcut map of the world, (410 x 560mm). An untitled world map, with woodcut inscription by the woodcutter, Insculptum est per Johanne Schnitzer de Armszheim (engraved by Johann, woodcutter from Armszheim), the map coloured in a contemporary hand, the seas in blue, mountains in brown, lakes in blue, islands in green and red, the wind heads yellow on a light blue ground with red flecks in the hair, tropics and equator in red, yellow borders. (Slightly stained at lower corners, lower margin shaved with loss of outer border line, affecting letters of one wind head.) Window mount.
AN IMPORTANT WORLD MAP, the first woodcut version of a Ptolemaic world map and the first to be made outside Italy. This version also attempts to update the Ptolemaic image, probably based on a manuscript of Donnus Nicolaus Germanus of the 1470's, the map showing a rudimentary Scandinavia and Greenland in an extension across the upper border between the wind heads. Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps 1472-1500, 179; Shirley 10.
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