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Europe Tabula Prima

The First European Map, depicting the British Isles Britain/Albion, Hibernia, Thule, the Orkneys, and other nearby islands, from one of Guillaume Fillastre's manuscript copies of Ptolemy's Geography. 215 x 148 mm. Second page resized to align maps.

Date
1426
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy, translated into Latin by Jacobus Angelus
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,388 × 900 pixels

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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.

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"Europe Tabula Prima" (1426). Ptolemy, translated into Latin by Jacobus Angelus, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_Tabula_Prima.png

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