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Important Cartography from the Niewodniczanski Collection
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170)
In hoc opere haec continentur geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei … Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigation qua Lisbona ad Indicum pervenitur pelagus Marco Beneventano monacho caelestino aedita. Nova et universalior Orbis cogniti tabula Joa. Ruysch Germano elaborata. Sex Tabulae noviter confectae. Rome: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 8 September, 1507 [colophon], 1508 [title].
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170)
In hoc opere haec continentur geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei … Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigation qua Lisbona ad Indicum pervenitur pelagus Marco Beneventano monacho caelestino aedita. Nova et universalior Orbis cogniti tabula Joa. Ruysch Germano elaborata. Sex Tabulae noviter confectae. Rome: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 8 September, 1507 [colophon], 1508 [title].
The first edition of Ptolemy to include any account of the New World, including Johann Ruysch’s important and rare fan-shaped world map. This fourth Rome edition was translated by Jacobus Angelus, edited by Johannes Cotta, and includes an account of the New World by Marcus Beneventanus (1465-1522), a monk of the order of Celestines.
Ruysch's celebrated fan-shape map is the first map in an edition of Ptolemy to show any part of the New World. It was long considered to be the first map to show the Spanish and Portuguese discoveries of the New World but is now known to have been preceded by Contarini's map of 1506 and by Martin Waldseemuller's map of 1507, both known by single copies only. The map is here in its third state (see Shirley). Alden 508.10; Censimento 16 CNCE 59093 (Pavia only); Nordenskiold Collection 2, 203; Phillips, Atlases 357; Sabin 66476; Shirley 25.
Folio (418 x 275mm). Text 108 and 34 leaves (including blank leaf O8, leaf G1 mis-signed H1, some light marginal damp-stains, final two text leaves with outer margins restored without loss of text). Title with large elaborate woodcut initial 'I', woodcut diagrams and initials in the text, full-page woodcut diagram on N1, and 34 double-page engraved maps, comprising 27 of the ancient world and 7 of the modern world (full-page diagram and neatline of a few maps slightly shaved, wormholes affecting margins of a few leaves at end, occasional light surface dirt (as usual), one or two maps with early ink annotations, some restoration and repairs to maps, including Italy with restored hole in sea and right sheet laid down, France (repaired tears), Germany (left sheet laid down)). Later vellum with manuscript ink title to spine (slight wear and loss to spine); housed in a modern red cloth folding box. Provenance: Charles Casimir de Dolomieu (engraved armorial bookplate at foot of title) — Josephe du Merteau (engraved armorial bookplate on verso of front free endpaper with inscription in ink identifying the bookplate, and inscription in the same hand on lower pastedown dated 1759) — Sotheby’s 21 May 1984, lot 80.
In hoc opere haec continentur geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei … Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigation qua Lisbona ad Indicum pervenitur pelagus Marco Beneventano monacho caelestino aedita. Nova et universalior Orbis cogniti tabula Joa. Ruysch Germano elaborata. Sex Tabulae noviter confectae. Rome: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 8 September, 1507 [colophon], 1508 [title].
The first edition of Ptolemy to include any account of the New World, including Johann Ruysch’s important and rare fan-shaped world map. This fourth Rome edition was translated by Jacobus Angelus, edited by Johannes Cotta, and includes an account of the New World by Marcus Beneventanus (1465-1522), a monk of the order of Celestines.
Ruysch's celebrated fan-shape map is the first map in an edition of Ptolemy to show any part of the New World. It was long considered to be the first map to show the Spanish and Portuguese discoveries of the New World but is now known to have been preceded by Contarini's map of 1506 and by Martin Waldseemuller's map of 1507, both known by single copies only. The map is here in its third state (see Shirley). Alden 508.10; Censimento 16 CNCE 59093 (Pavia only); Nordenskiold Collection 2, 203; Phillips, Atlases 357; Sabin 66476; Shirley 25.
Folio (418 x 275mm). Text 108 and 34 leaves (including blank leaf O8, leaf G1 mis-signed H1, some light marginal damp-stains, final two text leaves with outer margins restored without loss of text). Title with large elaborate woodcut initial 'I', woodcut diagrams and initials in the text, full-page woodcut diagram on N1, and 34 double-page engraved maps, comprising 27 of the ancient world and 7 of the modern world (full-page diagram and neatline of a few maps slightly shaved, wormholes affecting margins of a few leaves at end, occasional light surface dirt (as usual), one or two maps with early ink annotations, some restoration and repairs to maps, including Italy with restored hole in sea and right sheet laid down, France (repaired tears), Germany (left sheet laid down)). Later vellum with manuscript ink title to spine (slight wear and loss to spine); housed in a modern red cloth folding box. Provenance: Charles Casimir de Dolomieu (engraved armorial bookplate at foot of title) — Josephe du Merteau (engraved armorial bookplate on verso of front free endpaper with inscription in ink identifying the bookplate, and inscription in the same hand on lower pastedown dated 1759) — Sotheby’s 21 May 1984, lot 80.
榮譽呈獻
Eugenio Donadoni
Senior Specialist, Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts