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1482 Cosmographia Germanus

The world map from Leinhart Holle's 1482 edition of Nicolaus Germanus's emendations to Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.

Date
1482
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy Jacobus Angelus, translator
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
6,055 × 4,360 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"1482 Cosmographia Germanus" (1482). Ptolemy Jacobus Angelus, translator, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1482_Cosmographia_Germanus.JPG

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