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Attributed to: Taddeo Crivelli

Published by: Dominicus de Lapis
Title
print, book, map, atlas
Description
English: 'Cosmographia' by Claudius Ptolemaeus, an atlas containing 26 illuminated engraved maps, printed across the sheet and folded, with manuscript captions and numbers and illuminated index (Bologna, Dominicus de Lapis, 1477); the maps illustrate the following countries: (a map of the world), the British Isles, Spain and Portugal, France and Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Adriatic, Italy, Sardinia and Sicily, the Balkans, Greece, Crete, Asia Minor, Morocco, Algeria and Tunis, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, S. Russia and the Caucasus, Palestine, Syria and Iraq, Persia, Arabia, Southern Siberia and the Caspian Sea, China, Tibet, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, India and Ceylon. Bound in blue leather bindng with gilt-tooled border.
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Depicted people Illustration to: Claudius Ptolemaeus
Date 1477
date QS:P571,+1477-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 442 millimetres
Width: 299 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1845,0825.492-517
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Ptolemaeus's 'Cosmographia', published in Bologna by the printer Dominicus de Lapis in 1477, is the first atlas of maps engraved on copper plates. The book was issued with the date 1462 which was, as Hind noted, a misprint (the date MCCCCLXII should be read MCCCCLXXVII, with the omission of the Roman numeral XV). A finer edition of the atlas was published in Rome by the printer Arnoldus Buckinck the following year.

The twenty-six maps occur in two states, the first with the sea plain and the second one with the sea shaded in curves in imitation of waves, and with the addition of ships and fishes. All maps in this volume are Hind's first state, except for nos. 6 and 17.

The Bolognese edition of the 'Cosmographia' was executed and published by a partnership of printers and artists, among them Taddeo Crivelli, a Ferrarese miniaturist previously engaged in Ferrara on Duke Borso's 'Bible'.
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