Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
01
Record number:
01-1
JCB call number:
Z P975 1482 [R] / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Map of the world]
Place image published:
[Ulm]
Image publisher:
[Lienhart Holle]
Image date:
[1482]
Image function:
plate
Technique:
woodcut, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
42.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
57 cm.
Page dimension height:
42.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
57cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
A map of the pre-Columbian world, from Asia to Europe (excluding the "New World" of the Americas). Geographical elements include names of countries, rivers, seas, windheads, and lines of latitude.
Source creator:
Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
Source Title:
Cosmographia
Source place of publication:
Ulm
Source publisher:
Lienhart Holle
Source date:
1482
notes:
This is the first Ptolemy printed in Germany and the first edition in which woodcut maps appear. Sabin states that the maps are redrawn, corrected, and improved by Nicolaus Donis [i.e. Nicolaus Germanus].
Time Period:
1492-1600
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Geography, Ancient--Maps
Subject matter:
mappamundi, world map
References:
Sabin 66472
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Image ID:
10001
Resolution Size:
6
Format:
SID
Media Type:
Image
File Name:
00016001.sid
Width:
5816
Height:
4510

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