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Summary
Ptolemy : Prima Europe Tabula | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q34943
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Title |
Prima Europe tabula
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Part of | Geography | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | map | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
One of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's 2nd century map of the British Isles. Originally published in Ptolemy's Geographia. This is the second issue of the 1482 map, also printed at Ulm, which was the first woodcut map of the British Isles and the first to be printed outside Italy.
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Date |
1486
date QS:P571,+1486-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Dimensions |
height: 350 mm (13.77 in); width: 500 mm (19.68 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,350U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,500U174789
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q666063
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Notes | Scale not given | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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