Decima Europe tabula continet Macedonia et epitu et Achaiam et Peloponesum

Title

Decima Europe tabula continet Macedonia et epitu et Achaiam et Peloponesum

Map shows the whole of Greece, the Aegean, Crete and the Bosporus. Text in Latin on the reverse. The map shows the region based on the writings of the Alexandrian mapmaker Claudius Ptolemy, who flourished in the second century AD and whose geographical text was translated into Latin and later inspired handwritten maps that used Ptolemy's table of geographical coordinates. The earliest surviving examples of such handwritten maps date from the beginning of the 14th century. These maps and Ptolemy's text were eventually combined in the 15th century, coinciding with the advent of printing, to form the most influential treatise on geography, leading to its widespread distribution in Europe and, ironically, eclipsing the work of other Greek geographers of the time, such as Strabo, whose work was probably more accurate than Ptolemy's calculations.

ca. 1482

Artist

Ptolemy/Holle