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Cosmographia (Tr: Jacobus Angelus. Ed: Philippus Beroaldus and others).

Accession number
PML 35365-66
Creator
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Object title

Cosmographia (Tr: Jacobus Angelus. Ed: Philippus Beroaldus and others).

Published

Bologna : Dominicus de Lapis, 23 June '1462' [i.e., 1477]

Description

(fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1939.
Notes
Variant setting on leaf 2a noted in BMC. For contracts documenting the production of the book, proving that the date must be 1477 (not 1462 as printed), see BMC. 26 copper-engraved maps.
Binding
Late 19th-/early 20th-century full reddish-brown goatskin, gilt-tooled, by Zaehnsdorf.
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: A few maps with contemporary manuscript surtitles, many trimmed.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Feb. 1939.
Classification
Century
Department