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Document identity
localId
7h14b115g
label
[Palestina]
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7h14b115g
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
[Palestina]
date
["[1482]"]
year
1482
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_000857
creators
Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Hol, Lienhart
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800
Israel--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Asia
Israel
State of Palestine
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
State of Palestine
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Ulm
publisher
Lienhart Hol
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 23 x 49 cm.
notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Map of Palestine.
Oriented with north to the left.
Relief shown by brown coloring.
Engraved on wood with place names in moveable type.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margin: notes on latitude.
Appears in the author's Geographia. Ulm : Lienhart Hol, 16 July 1482.
Like all the modern maps of Palestine added to the early printed editions of Ptolemy, this was copied from Petrus Vesconte's map of Palestine first published by Marino Sanuto, ca. 1320.
One of 5 'modern' maps of non-Ptolemaic design, executed by Pietro Vesconte for Marino sanudo's "Liber secretorum fidelium crucis" early in the 14th century.
Text in Latin.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/cosmographia00ptol
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no
dcId
7h14b115g
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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