Exhibition History: Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) / Work Type: woodcut / Subject Terms: Geography, Ancient. and Guerrinius, Pamphilus -- Inscription (BEIN 1977 Folio 132) - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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Exhibition History Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)

Work Type woodcut

Subject Terms Geography, Ancient.

Subject Terms Guerrinius, Pamphilus -- Inscription (BEIN 1977 Folio 132)

1. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata / schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano monacho caelestino & Ioanne Cotta Veronensi uiris mathematicis consultissimis ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.

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Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Virginei partus 1508
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([284] pages, [68] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 34 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts