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Crivelli World Map

A world map separately published by Taddeo Crivelli, the engraver generally credited with the maps for the 1477 Bologna Ptolemy, and his partner Francesco Puteolano on 22 April 1474. No original copies survive. Four copies survive of a reprinting from the original plate by Petrus de Nobilibus at Rome in the late 16th century, c. 1590. Facsimile republished by Lino Sighinolfi in 1909 and by Youssouf Kamal, prince of Egypt, in 1928. Republished in photostat in 1932. 37 cm x 50 cm. Original of this image (from the 1909 edition) held by the JCB Map Collection at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Date
1474–1932
Mapmaker / publisher
Originally Ptolemy; this edition reprinted as part of Lino Sighinolfi's 1909 La Bibliofilia X, pp. 264-5
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 3,055 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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Credit line

"Crivelli World Map" (1474–1932). Originally Ptolemy; this edition reprinted as part of Lino Sighinolfi's 1909 La Bibliofilia X, pp. 264-5, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crivelli_World_Map.png

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