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• Author/Creator:Ptolemy, active 2nd century, cartographer.
  
• Uniform Title:[Geographia. Latin. 1535]
  
• Title:Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo [cartographic material] / Ex Biblibaldo Pirckeymheri tra[ns]latione, sed ad Graeca & prisca exemplaria à Michaële Villanouano iam primum recogniti. Adiecta insuper ab eodem scholia, quibus exoleta urbium nomina ad nostri seculi more[m] exponuntur. Quinquaginta illae quoque cum ueterum tum recentium tabul[a]e adnectuntur, uariisq[ue] incolentium ritus & mores explicantur.
  
• Published/Created:Lugduni [Lyon] : Ex officina Melchioris et Gasparis Trechsel fratrum, M. D. XXXV. [1535]
  
• Physical Description:1 atlas (149, [79] p., 50 [i.e. 49] double leaves of plates) : ill., 50 maps ; 43 cm (fol.)
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GGfp94 gf525b
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: 1977 Folio 127
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Cartographic detail:Scales differ.
  
• Local Notes:BEIN GGfp94 gf525b: Imperfect: maps 29-31, 34-36 wanting. Inscription on title page: Ex libris Jeremiae[?] Duvernoy ... 1628. Scant marginal manuscript annotations.
  BEIN 1977 Folio 127: Armorial bookplate: C.L.F. Robinson. Printed label on inside front cover: 4536.
  
• Notes:Colophon on p. [2], 2nd count, reads: Excvdebant Lvgdvni Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel fratres. M. D. XXXV.
  First printed in Latin in Vicenza in 1475 without maps; the maps from engraved copperplates were first included in the Bologna, 1477 edition.
  According to Stevens, this edition was edited by Michael Villanovanus, better known as Servetus. The woodcut borders and ornaments are said to be the work of Hans Holbein and Graf of Basel and differ in places from the Strasbourg, 1525 edition. Many copies of this book are said to have been burned by order of Calvin at the time of the execution of Michael Servetus in 1553. The translation is again that of Willibald Pirckheimer; the final map [50]. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta 1522 was executed by Lorenz Fries (Laurentius Fries or Phrisius), a physician and mathematician from Metz; he added the text on the rectos and sometimes versos of the outer form of the double maps, which appear in the Strasbourg editions of 1522 and 1525.
  Philips in his List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress notes that it was the text on the verso of map 41. Tab[vla] Ter[rae] Sanctae which contained the passage which was used in one of the charges against Michael Servitus when he was burned at the stake in 1553. This passage was, however, not original with Servetus but was copied from the editions of 1522 and 1525.
  According to Stevens and Philips, the woodcut maps in this edition were copies from the Martin Waldseemüller maps contained in the Strasbourg, 1513 and the 1522 editions but printed in a smaller scale. Maps [1]. Generale Ptho[lemei] and map [50]. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta 1522 are the first and last, respectively, to appear in this edition, without the text on the recto and/or verso of the outer form. All other maps have descriptive text on either the recto and verso, or sometimes just the recto of the outer form, except for map [36]. Tab[vla] nova Norbegiae et Gotthia on which the map of [Lotharingia] appears on the verso of the outer form; the order of maps in this edition is indicated by a numerical designation following the text on the recto of each;
  "Index Ptolemaei copiosissimvs qvo diligens ac studiosus quisq[ue] omnia terrarum, marium, ac singulorum, in his contentorum, diuersarum uidelicet regionum, prouinciarum seu pr[a]efecturarum, urbium, oppidoru[m], castrorum, promontorioru[m], montium, nemorum, sylvaru[m], specuum, aquaru[m], fluminum, fluuioru[m]que, stagnorum, fontium, lacuu[m] & riparum nomina & situs, caeterosq[ue] multiplices huius operis fructus, certis & notissimis indicijs facillime ac citra tedium explorare queat. Adiecta insuper praxis ad distantiam inter duas ciuitates & duo quaeuis loca, in quocunq[ue] climate contineantur, per cuiusuis generis miliaria dimetiendam", p. [1-76], 3rd count, has divisional title page.
  The maps are bound between the Servetus translation of Plolemy's Geographia on p. [1]-149 and [1-3], 1st and 2nd counts and the "Index Ptolemaei copiosissim " on p. [1-76], 3rd count; the maps which show American in this edition are: 28. Oceani occidentalis seu Terrae Novae tabvla , which has some slight changes from the Waldseemüller map of 1522, and has the descriptve text on the recto and verso of the map giving an account of the voyages of Columbus and 50. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta. 1522, which was executed by Lorenz Fries and is the first map with the name "America", inscribed on the continent of South America, which appeared in an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia; map 40 in the 1525 edition is named "Tabvla moder[na] Asiae Minoris ", while here is is named "De Mahometo et Tvrcarvm origine et moribus".
  Maps show pictorial relief.
  Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁴ (n4 verso blank) A-E⁶ F⁸ (F8 verso blank).
  Errors in pagination: p. 18, 1st count, misnumbered 13.
  Errata: p. [75], 3rd count.
  Text of Ptolemy's Geographia and the Index Ptolemaei printed in two parallel columns; a full column has 56 lines of text.
  Woodcut printer's device on title page and divisional title page; rubricated initials; the descriptive text on the rectos of the outer forms of the double maps is often framed by an ornamental woodcut border and includes woodcut head and tail piece vignettes, and/or versos of the outer forms of the double maps; contains numerous woodcut diagrams within the text and full page woodcuts on p. 128 and 129, 1st count..
  
• Variant and related titles:Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
  Geographicae enarrationis libri octo
  
• Format:Map
• Contents:(Titles of maps from head of map or from descriptive text on recto of outer forms of double maps) 1. Tabvla I Evropae -- 2. Tabvla II Evropae -- 3. Tabvla III Evropae -- 4. Tabvla IIII Evropae -- 5. Tabvla V Evropae -- 6. Tabvla VI Evropae -- 7. Tabvla VII Evrop[ae] -- 8. Tabvla VIII Evrop[ae] -- 9. Tabvla IX Evropae -- 10. Tabvla X Evropae -- 11. Tabvla I Aphricae -- 12. Tabvla II Aphricae -- 13. Tabvla III Aphricae -- 14. Tabvla IIII Aphricae -- 15. Tabvla I Asiae -- 16. Tabvla II Asiae -- 17. Tabvla III Asiae -- 18. Tabvla IIII Asiae -- 19. Tavbla V Asiae -- 20. Tabvla VI Asiae -- 21. Tabvla VII Asiae -- 22. Tabvla VIII Asiae -- 23. Tabvla IX Asiae -- 24. Tabvla X Asiae -- 25. Tabvla XI Asiae -- 26. Tabvla XII Asiae -- 27. [Generale Ptholemei] -- 28. Oceani occidentalis seu Terrae novae tabvla -- 29. Tabvla nova Hyberniae Angliae et Scotiae -- 30. Tab[vla] mo[derna] Hispa[niae] -- 31. Ta[bvla] nova Galliae -- 32. Tab[vla] mo[derna] Germa[niae] -- 33. Tabv[la] moderna Hungariae, Poloniae, Russiae, Prussiae, et Valachiae -- 34. Tab[vla] nova Norbegiae et Gotth[]iae -- 35. Tab[vla mo[derna] Italiae Corsicae et Sardiniae -- 36. Tab[vla] no[va] Italiae -- 37. Tabvla moder[na] Bossinae, Serviae, Greciae, et Sclauoniae, et primo de Graecia -- 38. Tab[vla] mo[derna] primae partis Aphricae -- 39. Ta[bula] mo[derna] secvndae partis Aphricae -- 40. De Mahometo et Tvrcarvm origine et moribus -- 41. Tab[vla] Ter[rae] Sanctae -- 42. Tabvla moder[na] Indiae orientalis -- 43. Ta[bvla] svperioris Indiae et Tartariae Maioris -- 44. Tabv[la] moder[na] Indiae -- 45. Ta[bvla] Here[mi] Helve[tiorvm] -- 46 and 47. Tabvla nova provintiae Rheni with [Lotharingia] -- 48. Tabvla neoterica Cretae siue Candiae -- 49. Tabvla moder[na] Gronlandiae et Rvssiae -- [50]. Orbis typvs vniversalis ivxta hydrographorvm traditionem. Exactissime depicta. 1522.
  
• References:Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (4th ed.), 47
  Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (4th ed.), 48
  Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (4th ed.), 49
  List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 364
  Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 66483
  Stevens, H.N. Ptolemy's geography: a brief account of all the printed editions down to 1730, p. 48
  Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I: p. 119
  European Americana, 535/14
  
• Subjects:Columbus, Christopher.
  Geography, Ancient.
  Geography, Ancient--Maps.
  Geography.
  Mathematical geography.
  America--Geography.
  America--Geography--Maps.
  America--Discovery and exploration--Italian.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Robinson, Charles L. F. (Charles Leonard Frost), 1874-1916--Bookplate.
  
• Genre/Form:Annotations (Provenance)--17th century.
  Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
  Atlases.
  
• Also listed under:Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530.
  Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553.
  Fries, Lorenz, approximately 1490-1531.
  Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543.
  Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519.
  France--Lyon.