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The Cosmography of Claudius Ptolemaeus the Alexandrian (Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini)
Author
Ptolemy, translated by Jacobus Angelus[1]
Title
The Cosmography of Claudius Ptolemaeus the Alexandrian (Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini)
Language Latin
Publication date 1467
publication_date QS:P577,+1467-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Place of publication Reichenbach Monastery
English: Ptolemy's 1st Asian Map (Tabula Asiae I), depicting Asia Minor/Anatolia.

Polski: Azja Mniejsza.

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Artist
Nicolaus Germanus
Title
English: Ptolemy's 1st Asian Map (Tabula Asiae I), depicting Asia Minor/Anatolia.
Polski: Azja Mniejsza.
Date 1467
date QS:P571,+1467-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium ink and color on parchment
Dimensions 42 × 28.8 cm (16.5 × 11.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q856423
Current location
Warsaw
Accession number
Rps BOZ 2/I-II
Object history

1573: transferred to Chancellor Jan Zamoyski (purchased in Paris)
1818: transferred to Library of the Zamoyski Estate

1946: transferred to National Library in Warsaw
Notes
English: Dedicated to Pope Paul II.
Source/Photographer www.polona.pl
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  1. ↑ English Halina Tchórzewska-Kabata, Maciej Dąbrowski (2000). More precious than gold: treasures of the Polish National Library, p. 68. Biblioteka Narodowa. ISBN 83-70093-00-0

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