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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Tabula Moderna Secunde Porcionis Aphriee.
Title in Translation:
Modern map of second half of Africa.
Publication Place:
Strasbourg
Publisher:
Schott, Johann, 1477-1548
Publication Date:
1513
Cartographer:
Waldseemuller, Martin, 1470-1521?
Physical Description:
Woodcut
Height:
35 cm.
Width:
50 cm.
Scale:
Scale in German and Italian miles
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Companion map to NOR 0286. Waldseemuller ... "produced an edition of Ptolemy with twenty-seven ancient maps and twenty maps based on contemporary knowledge - the first modern atlas." This map was reissued in "Strasbourg in 1520, 1522 and 1525; in Lyons in 1535, and Vienna in 1541".
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Southern Africa
Period:
16th c.
Norwich Number:
149
Call Number:
NOR 0149
Source:
Waldseemuller's Ptolemy atlas (1513)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0149, p. 169
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Tabula Moderna Secunde Porcionis Aphriee.