File:Ptolemaios 1467 Scandinavia.jpg

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Summary[edit]

Author

Ptolemy, translated by Jacobus Angelus[1]

Title Cosmography (Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini)
Year of publication

Place of publication

Reichenbach Monastery

Language

Latin

Artist
Nicolaus Germanus
Title
English: Scandinavia.
Polski: Skandynawia.
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 ″)
institution QS:P195,Q856423
Current location
Warsaw
Accession number
Rps BOZ 2/I-II
Object history

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

: transferred to National Library in Warsaw
Notes
English: Dedicated to Pope Paul II.
Source/Photographer www.polona.pl
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Copyright expired, PD-Art
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Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ English Halina Tchórzewska-Kabata, Maciej Dąbrowski (2000). More precious than gold: treasures of the Polish National Library, p. 68. Biblioteka Narodowa. ISBN 83-70093-00-0

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