Category:Rome Ptolemy

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Rome Ptolemy
English: The Rome Ptolemy (Latin: Cosmographia... or Geographica... Rome) was the second incunable printed edition of Jacobus Angelus's Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography and is generally credited as better designed and produced than the first, the Bologna Ptolemy. Work was begun by Conrad Swenheym and Arnold Pannartz, the founders of Italy's first printing press, around 1474 when Pope Sextus IV cancelled his predecessor Paul II's outstanding orders without compensation. Pannartz died in the 1476 plague outbreak and Swenheym the next year. Taddeo Crivelli successfully printed his edition of Ptolemy at Bologna before Arnold Buckinck of Cologne (Arnoldus Buckinck e Germania) completed Swenheym and Pannartz's edition, but his rushed work was abandoned by potential customers in favor of the Rome edition following its completion on 10 October 1478. Pietro de la Torre (Petrus de Turre) purchased its plates and issued a reprint in 1490. A third edition was issued in 1508, including additional "modern" maps. Around 40 copies of the first edition are known to have survived to the present, including Christopher Columbus's heavily-annotated copy.
Latina: Claudii Ptholemei Alexandrini Philosophi Cosmographia

Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Philosophi Geographiam Arnoldus Buckinck e Germania Rome Tabulis Aeneis in Picturis Formatam Impressit. Sempiterno Ingenii Artificiique Monumento Anno Dominici Natalis .M.CCCC.LXX VIII. VI. Idus Octobris. Sedente Sixto .IIII. Pont. Max. Anno Eius .VIII.

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