POST MEDIEVAL CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY'S MAP OF THE HOLY LAND Published 1561 AD Taken from La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Venice, translated by Girolamo Ruscelli and Vincenzo Valgrisi as 'Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano'; comprises an original double-page with Latin text relating to the map to reverses with hand-coloured folding map titled SORIA ET TERRA SANTA NVOVA TAVOLA, also showing Cyprus and part of the eastern Mediterranean region, the border, water and hills coloured with red lining to most place names. 5.93 grams, 30x22cm (12 x 8 3/4"). Condition Very fine condition. Rare. Provenance Ex Swiss collection; acquired 1980s. Literature See British Museum, General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955, pp.334-344 for information on the issues of this work. Footnotes Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100-170AD) was born in Alexandria and became one of the foremost scholars of his day as a geographer (he is sometimes known as the 'Father of Geography) and mathematician with his works being important for centuries after his death; in the Medieval period, his atlas was first published in Bologna in 1477; an incomplete copy of the 1561 edition containing fifty (of sixty-four) maps was sold by Christies, 10 October 2013, lot 68 and achieved a hammer price of £10,000.
POST MEDIEVAL CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY'S MAP OF THE HOLY LAND Published 1561 AD Taken from La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Venice, translated by Girolamo Ruscelli and Vincenzo Valgrisi as 'Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano'; comprises an original double-page with Latin text relating to the map to reverses with hand-coloured folding map titled SORIA ET TERRA SANTA NVOVA TAVOLA, also showing Cyprus and part of the eastern Mediterranean region, the border, water and hills coloured with red lining to most place names. 5.93 grams, 30x22cm (12 x 8 3/4"). Condition Very fine condition. Rare. Provenance Ex Swiss collection; acquired 1980s. Literature See British Museum, General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955, pp.334-344 for information on the issues of this work. Footnotes Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100-170AD) was born in Alexandria and became one of the foremost scholars of his day as a geographer (he is sometimes known as the 'Father of Geography) and mathematician with his works being important for centuries after his death; in the Medieval period, his atlas was first published in Bologna in 1477; an incomplete copy of the 1561 edition containing fifty (of sixty-four) maps was sold by Christies, 10 October 2013, lot 68 and achieved a hammer price of £10,000.
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