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Add 19391 19-20

A Greek-language map of Hibernia (Ireland) and Albion (Great Britain) derived from Ptolemy's Geography, probably in the early 14th century at Constantinople (Istanbul), held by the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos prior to its purchase by the British Museum. The map reflects Ptolemy's mistaken placement of Scotland at a right angle to the rest of Britain, apparently derived from his reliance on seafarer's logs.

Mapmaker / publisher
Anonymous (likely a monk or scholar of Constantinople, sometimes associated with Maximus Planudes) Based upon the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,512 × 1,828 pixels

Public domain

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

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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

"Add 19391 19-20". Anonymous (likely a monk or scholar of Constantinople, sometimes associated with Maximus Planudes) Based upon the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Add_19391_19-20.png

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