Content:
Atlas with 27 maps based on Ptolemy's Geographia (or:
Cosmographia), Each map created with a geographical coordinate
system and a trapezoid projection, covers the verso and recto of
one opening. Geographical names in Latin. Contents: (ff. 1v-8r)
Four maps of Africa (1-4). - (ff. 9v-32r) Twelve maps of Asia
(5-16). - (ff. 30r-52r) Ten maps of Europe (17-26). - (ff. 53v-54r)
World map (27). - Empty: ff. 54v-68v.
Map overview: 1. Mauretania. - 2. Africa. - 3. Cyrene; Egypt. - 4.
Lybia; Ethiopia. - 5. Anatolia (Asia Minor). - 6. Asian Sarmatia. -
7. Armenia; Media. - 8. Syria; Mesopotamia; Arabia, northern part.
- 9. Persia, western part. - 10. Red Sea (Mare Rubrum); Arabia,
southwestern and southern parts (Arabia Felix); Persian Gulf (Sinus
Persicus). - 11. Asia, northern part (middle). - 12. Asia, northern
part (east). - 13. Persia, southern and eastern parts. - 14. India.
- 15. India beyond the river Ganges (India extrema). - 16. Sri
Lanka (Taprobane). - 17. British Isles (Britannia; Hibernia). - 18.
Iberian Peninsula (Hispania). - 19. France (Gallia). - 20. German
countries (Germania; including "holandia"). - 21. Area east of the
river Danube. - 22. Apennine Peninsula (Italia). - 23. Sardinia,
Sicilia, Tyrrhenian Sea. - 24. European Sarmatia. - 25. Area below
the river Danube. - 26. Macedonia, Greece, Crete. - 27. World
map. Note:
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (De Meyier 1975):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:109990
Also described by MMDC. Part of:
Vossius, I. (1618-1689) Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
16th century
