Tabula IIII Aphricae

Title:: Tabula IIII Aphricae
Title (alt.):: Quarta tabula aphricae
Creator:: Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Date:: 1525
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:: Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:: Africa
Africa
Extent:: 1 map ; 28 x 43 cm.
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:: Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus
Scale:: Scale [ca. 1:4,200,000]
Language:: Latin
Notes:: Map of the northern half of the African continent.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margins: climatic and latitudinal notes.
Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso.
Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles.
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/claudiiptolemaei00ptol
Identifier:: 06_01_007985
Call #:: G1005 .P7 1525
Barcode:: 30000003787613