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Cosmographia

Ptolemy, 2nd cent, D'Angelo, Jacopo, tr, Nicolaus Germanus, 15th cent., ed, Schnitzer, Johann, Hol, Lienhart, printer · Ulm : Lienhart Holle · 4 pictures

Cosmographia is a 1482 Ulm atlas by Lienhart Holle, printing Ptolemy's ancient geography in a version translated by Jacopo D'Angelo and edited by Nicolaus Germanus for a German-reading audience. Its pages are hand-coloured woodcut maps with tinted landmasses, dense place-name lettering, and red-ruled borders, offering a designer rough, old-fashioned cartographic layouts and typography.

Cosmography · Geography · Atlases, German · Geography, Ancient · Early maps

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