File:1597 Ptolemy - Magini - Keschedt Map of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan - Geographicus - TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,480 × 1,781 pixels, file size: 691 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
9th Asian Map (Tabula Asiae IX).
Artist
http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/ptolemy.txt
Title
9th Asian Map (Tabula Asiae IX).
Description
English: A scarce and unusual 1597 Ptolemaic map of what constitutes modern day Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Presented on a trapezoidal projection with bold mountain ranges dividing the region. This map was engraved by G. Magini and G. Porro based upon the 1561 Valgrisi/Ruscelli edition of Ptolemy’s Geography. Shortly after Magini issued his edition of the Geographiae in 1596, Petrus Keschedt, a German publisher operating out of Cologne, copied it and began issuing his own pirated editions. In November of 1597, no less a figure than Abraham Ortelius spotted the pirate. Ortelius informed Magini and, in the face of legal action, Keschedt stopped publishing the atlas until 1608, at which point he recut the plates and issued a new edition. The 1596 Magini edition of Ptolemy’s Geographiae was the first small format edition of Mercator’s Atlas.
Date 1597 (undated)
Dimensions height: 5.5 in (13.9 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,5.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593
Accession number
Geographicus link: TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597
Source/Photographer

Geographiae universae tum veteris tum novae absolutissimum opus duobus voluminibus distinctum, In quorum priore habentur Cl. Ptolomaei Pelusiensis Geographicae enarrationis Libri octo: Quorum primus, qui praecepta ipsius facultatis omnia complectitur, commentariis uberrimis illustratus est a Io. Antonio Magino Patavino. (1597 Keschedt edition)

Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current15:40, 16 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 15:40, 16 March 20112,480 × 1,781 (691 KB)BotMultichill (talk | contribs){{subst:User:Multichill/Geographicus |link=http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597 |product_name=1597 Ptolemy / Magini / Keschedt Map of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan |map_title=Tabula Asiae IX. |description=A scarce and unusual

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1597_Ptolemy_-_Magini_-_Keschedt_Map_of_Pakistan,_Iran_and_Afghanistan_-_Geographicus_-_TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597.jpg&oldid=855123394"