Newberry Library, VAULT Ayer 6 .P9 M5 1518

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17916

Shelfmark:

VAULT Ayer 6 .P9 M5 1518

Title:

Manuscript maps derived from an early 16th-century edition of Ptolemy's Geographia

Geographia

Author:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Ptolemy WIKIDATA

Date:

1518?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

hand col.

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 ms. maps : hand col. ; on sheets 279 x 399 mm.

Note:

Bound with the Newberry Library copy of Mela, Pomponius. Pomponii Melae Hispani, Libri de situ orbis tres / adiectis Ioachimi Vadiani Heluetti ... . Viennae Pannoniae : Expensis Lucae Alantse ... per Ioannem Singrenium ... M.D.X.VIII [1518].
Does not include a world map.
Pen-and-ink and paint (blue, yellow, green, red, orange, silver, gold).
Front cover stamped Pom. Mela 1519 [sic].
Ms. note above crest inside front cover: Comparatum anno 1528 per Sebastianum Gouchium [?
Ex libris D. M. V. M. P. B. [?] (inside back cover); Memorial bookplate of Edward E. Ayer and the Henry Stevens Ptolemy Collection on front endleaf: "Begun in 1848 and since his death in 1886 continued by his son Henry Newton Stevens until acquired in 1898 by Edward E. Ayer."
The maps form part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
Another copy of Mela's printed book with tipped-in manuscript maps is held by the Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica v Ljubljani (the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia).

Keyword:

Atlases

Early works

Manuscript maps

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993154638805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZF908T7

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library