File:1597 Ptolemy - Magini - Keschedt Map of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan - Geographicus - TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597.jpg
Original file (2,480 × 1,781 pixels, file size: 691 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
9th Asian Map (Tabula Asiae IX). | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist | ||||||
Title |
9th Asian Map (Tabula Asiae IX). |
|||||
Description |
English: A scarce and unusual 1597 Ptolemaic map of what constitutes modern day Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Presented on a trapezoidal projection with bold mountain ranges dividing the region. This map was engraved by G. Magini and G. Porro based upon the 1561 Valgrisi/Ruscelli edition of Ptolemy’s Geography. Shortly after Magini issued his edition of the Geographiae in 1596, Petrus Keschedt, a German publisher operating out of Cologne, copied it and began issuing his own pirated editions. In November of 1597, no less a figure than Abraham Ortelius spotted the pirate. Ortelius informed Magini and, in the face of legal action, Keschedt stopped publishing the atlas until 1608, at which point he recut the plates and issued a new edition. The 1596 Magini edition of Ptolemy’s Geographiae was the first small format edition of Mercator’s Atlas. |
|||||
Date | 1597 (undated) | |||||
Dimensions |
height: 5.5 in (13.9 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,5.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593 |
|||||
Accession number |
Geographicus link: TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597 |
|||||
Source/Photographer |
Geographiae universae tum veteris tum novae absolutissimum opus duobus voluminibus distinctum, In quorum priore habentur Cl. Ptolomaei Pelusiensis Geographicae enarrationis Libri octo: Quorum primus, qui praecepta ipsius facultatis omnia complectitur, commentariis uberrimis illustratus est a Io. Antonio Magino Patavino. (1597 Keschedt edition)
|
|||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 15:40, 16 March 2011 | 2,480 × 1,781 (691 KB) | BotMultichill (talk | contribs) | {{subst:User:Multichill/Geographicus |link=http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/TabulaAsiaIX-magini-1597 |product_name=1597 Ptolemy / Magini / Keschedt Map of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan |map_title=Tabula Asiae IX. |description=A scarce and unusual |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wiktionary.org