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Cosmography (Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini)
Author
Ptolemy, translated by Jacobus Angelus
Title
Cosmography (Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini)
Language Latin
Publication date 1467
publication_date QS:P577,+1467-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Place of publication Reichenbach Monastery
English: Ptolemy's 4th European Map: Germany and Denmark.

Polski: Niemcy.

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English: Ptolemy's 4th European Map: Germany and Denmark.
Polski: Niemcy.
Date 1467
date QS:P571,+1467-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium ink and color on parchment
Dimensions 42 × 28.8 cm (16.5 × 11.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q856423
Current location
Warsaw
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Rps BOZ 2/I-II
Object history

1573: transferred to Chancellor Jan Zamoyski (purchased in Paris)
1818: transferred to Library of the Zamoyski Estate

1946: transferred to National Library in Warsaw
Notes
English: Dedicated to Pope Paul II.
Source/Photographer www.polona.pl
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17:33, 19 January 2008Thumbnail for version as of 17:33, 19 January 20081,546 × 1,098 (1.19 MB)Peacay (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Map of Germany |Source=National Digital Library of Poland[http://www.polona.pl/dlibra/doccontent2?id=61&dirids=1] |Date=1467 |Author=Nicolaus Germanius (after Ptolemy (Geographia): 1st/2nd centuy AD) |Permission= |other_versions

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