Category:Bologna Ptolemy

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Bologna Ptolemy
The Bologna Ptolemy (Latin: Cosmographia... Bononiensis) was the first incunable printed edition of Jacobus Angelus's Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography. The text was edited by Pietro Bono, Girolamo Manfredi, Galleoto Marzio, Nicolo di Guggio, and Filippo Beroaldo, but it was hastily printed by Dominico de' Lapi (Dominicus de Lapis) in a run of 500 copies in 1577. (Its colophon gives the mistaken date 1562.) Its copperplate maps are believed to have been drawn and engraved by Taddeo Crivelli, who made numerous errors including spelling and line mistakes and mirrored words. Only 26 are known to have survived to the present day.

The maps are numbered sequentially, beginning with the world map, rather than divided by continent and concluded with the world map, as in later editions of Ptolemy. Ptolemy's treatment of Anatolia—later made the separate 1st Asian Map—is here divided and added to the maps of Greece and Armenia instead.

BNF copy

Lynam, The First Engraved Atlas in the World, Jenkintown, 1941.

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