Tertia Affrice tabula continet Cyrenainaycam & Egyptum cum adiacentibus insulis

Tertia Affrice tabula continet Cyrenainaycam & Egyptum cum adiacentibus insulis

Item Information

Title:
Tertia Affrice tabula continet Cyrenainaycam & Egyptum cum adiacentibus insulis
Creator:
Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Printer:
Hol, Lienhart
Date:
[1482]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
Cyrene (Extinct city)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Egypt--Maps--Early works to 1800
Libya--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Egypt
Libya > Al Jabal al Akhḑar (territory) > Shaḥḥāt
Extent:
1 map : col ; 26 x 44 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7h14b1014
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Ulm : Lienhart Hol
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:4,300,000]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Title from verso.
Map of the ancient city of Cyrene in eastern Libya, and Egypt.
Relief shown by brown coloring.
Engraved on wood with place names in moveable type.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margin: notes on latitude.
Appears in the author's Geographia. Ulm : Lienhart Hol, 16 July 1482.
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://www.archive.org/details/cosmographia00ptol
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
06_01_000852
Call #:
G1005 .P7 1482
Barcode:
30000003825237