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Adina Sommer`s Rare Antique Maps and Contemporary Art
Quinta Europe tabula
Original:
3,800.00 €
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| Article ID | EUO1963 |
| Artist | Ptolemy/ Petrus de Turre |
| Petrus de Turre puchased Conrad Sweynheyms plates in 1490 to reissue the maps based on Claudius Ptolemy notes. Claudius Ptolemy ( arround 100- 160 a.C.) Geographia, gives a list of geographic coordinates of spherical longitude and latitude of almost ten thousand point locations on the earth surface, as they were known at his times. The list is organized in Tabulae which cor- respond to specific regions of the three known continents at that time, Africa, Asia and Europe. Research on Ptolemy’s Geographia has started at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in the eighties, focused mainly, but not exclusively, on data re- lated to territories which are now under the sovereignty of the modern Greek state. The World of Ptolemy is classified in Regions, since each Chapter is referred to one of them, giving by this way the concept of Atlas as it is understood today. | |
| Title | Quinta Europe tabula |
| Year | ca. 1490 |
| Description | Map shows north east Italy, Slowenis, Croatia and Dalmatia |
| Place of Publication | Rome |
| Dimensions (cm) | 26,5 x 54 |
| Condition | Very good |
| Coloring | original colored |
| Technique | Woodcut |
Reproduction:
570.00 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )