World map
Item Information
- Title:
- World map
- Creator:
- Silvani, Bernardo
- Contributor:
- Pencio, Jacopo, active 1486-1530
- Date:
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1511
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
- Phillips Academy
- Collection (local):
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Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy, Andover MA
- Subjects:
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World maps--Early works to 1800
- Extent:
- 1 map : col. ; 43 x 57 cm.
- Terms of Use:
-
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
- Publisher:
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Venetiis :
Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho
- Scale:
-
Scale not given
- Language:
-
Latin
- Notes:
-
Title supplied by cataloger.
Cordiform projection.
Map is printed in two colors, red and black.
Outer map border shows decorative windheads and zodiacal signs.
Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511.
The author's name is often given as Bernard Sylvanus (see Shirley entry 32, plate 35) or Bernardus Sylvanus.
- Notes (citation):
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Shirley, R. Mapping of the world, 32
Suarez, T. Shedding the veil, 14
- Identifier:
-
1423
- Call #:
-
G.400.22
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