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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Medius meridianus 37, reliqui ad hunc inclinantur ratione 28 & 33 parallellorum.
Title in Translation:
Mediterranean Sea and north coast of Africa from latitude 37 degrees.
Publication Place:
Unknown
Publisher:
Bertius, Petrus, 1565-1629
Publication Date:
1618
Cartographer:
Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
Height:
33 cm.
Width:
46 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Outline color
Descriptive Notes:
Includes southern part of Sardina and Sicily. The stippled sea contains two sea monsters. Mainland is decorated with a lion and a leopard. Similar map appears in Tabulae Geografficae Orbis Terrarum ... by Jan van Vianen (1704). Title across top: Afri II Tab.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Northern Africa
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
295
Call Number:
NOR 0295
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0295, p. 335
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Medius meridianus 37, reliqui ad hunc inclinantur ratione 28 & 33 parallellorum.