Clavdii Ptholomei Viri Alexandrini Cosmographie : Beatissimo Patri Pavlo Secvndo Pontifici Maximo. Donis Nicolavs Germanvs
This is a 1482 Latin edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia, printed by Leonard Hol and dedicated to Pope Paul II, with its text attributed to Nicolaus Germanus and Johann Schnitzer. The pictures are hand-coloured decorated initials in green, yellow, and brown, set beside columns of black-letter text. A designer could take from them the interlocking foliage, dotted ground, and framed capital letter structure of early printed Renaissance ornament.
