[The World]

Title:: [The World]
Title (alt.):: Ptolemaic world map
Creator:: Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Date:: 1511
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:: World maps--Early works to 1800
1511
Places:: World
Extent:: 1 map : col. ; 27 x 53 cm.
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:: Venice : J. Pentius de Leucho
Scale:: Scale [ca. 1:60,000,000]
Language:: Latin
Notes:: Ptolemaic world map.
Relief shown pictorially.
Engraved on wood with place names in moveable type.
Shows named national or geographical regions, rivers, mountains, deserts, seas.
In margin: climactic notes and zodiacal signs.
Appears in the author's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511.
Text in Latin.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/claudiiptholemae00ptol
Identifier:: 06_01_007940
Call #:: G1005 .P7 1511
Barcode:: 30000003778583