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Title

  • In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata

Other Title

  • In hoc opere haec continentvr Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata

Names

  • Ptolemy, active 2nd century
  • Marcus, de Benevento
  • Cotta, Giovanni, 1480 or 1482-1510
  • D'Angelo, Jacopo
  • Ruysch, Johannes, -1533
  • Vitali, Bernardino dei, active 1494-1539, printer
  • Tosini, Evangelista, bookseller
  • Bowman, Walter, 1699-1782, former owner
  • John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Bibliotheca Petzoldiana, former owner

Created / Published

  • Rome : Impressum per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus : Expe[n]sis Eua[n]gelista Tosino Brixiano Bibliopola, anno Virginei partus 1508.

Headings

  • -  Geography--Early works to 1800
  • -  Italy--Rome

Notes

  • -  Jacopo D'Angelo's Latin translation from the Greek of Ptolemy's Geographia.
  • -  "A reissue of the preceding edition, with a new title-page, and the addition of the "orbis nuoua descriptio" of Beneventanus in fourteen leaves, and Ruysch's map of the world"--Sabin.
  • -  Publisher from colophon; colophon dated 1507.
  • -  Signatures: A-C⁸ D-E⁶ F-O⁸, a⁶ b⁸, 2A-2B⁸ 2C⁴.
  • -  Includes 34 maps on double leaves; second state of Ruysch map.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 760
  • -  List of maps of America in the Library of Congress (Phillips), 357
  • -  Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 66476
  • -  Thacher, II, p. 42 (Americana)
  • -  LC Rosenwald Collection copy has ink inscription on front free endpaper: Walter Bowman; lengthy ms. notes in ink at end.
  • -  LC copy: Bound in contemporary red-brown calf binding, with medallions showing Ptolemaeus in the center of the front and back covers; clasps wanting.
  • -  Copy 1 Conserved Library of Congress Conservation Division. Project ID 3981 2019 For treatment information, contact the Conservation Division. pda
  • -  LAC knj 2019-07-02 no edits (3 cards)
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-06-21 no edits (3 cards)

Medium

  • [284] p., [68] leaves of plates : ill., maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G113 .P7 1508
  • G1005 1508 Copy 1 43 cm. Imperfect; O8, a1, and 2C4 wanting; all maps mounted; Ruysch map in first state, without the inscriptions.
  • Thacher A841 Copy 1 Imperfect: signatures Aa-Bb⁸, Cc⁴ wanting. Bookplate: Bibliotheca Petzoldiana; Ruysch map in third state with the inscriptions: Plisacvs Sinvs, Sinvs Grvenlanteus, Pelagvs Bone Speranze and Seyllan Oceanvs.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 50001441

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Ptolemy, Active 2Nd Century, De Benevento Marcus, Giovanni Cotta, Jacopo D'Angelo, Johannes Ruysch, Bernardino Dei Vitali, Evangelista Tosini, et al. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei aplurimis uiris utriusque linguae doctiss. emendata, & cum archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata. [Rome: Impressum per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus: Expensis Euangelista Tosino Brixiano Bibliopola, anno Virginei partus, 1508] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/50001441/.

APA citation style:

Ptolemy, A. 2. C., Marcus, D. B., Cotta, G., D'Angelo, J., Ruysch, J., Vitali, B. D. [...] Bibliotheca Petzoldiana, F. O. (1508) In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei aplurimis uiris utriusque linguae doctiss. emendata, & cum archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata. [Rome: Impressum per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus: Expensis Euangelista Tosino Brixiano Bibliopola, anno Virginei partus] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/50001441/.

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Ptolemy, Active 2Nd Century, et al. In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei aplurimis uiris utriusque linguae doctiss. emendata, & cum archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata. [Rome: Impressum per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus: Expensis Euangelista Tosino Brixiano Bibliopola, anno Virginei partus, 1508] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/50001441/>.