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Greek world map after Ptolemy's 1st projection

The world map after Ptolemy's 1st projection from an early 15th-century Greek manuscript edition of Ptolemy's Geography (MS Gr Z 388 =333 ff. 50 v. & 51 r.) from the collection at Venice's St Mark's Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciano di Venezia).

Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
641 × 399 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

"Greek world map after Ptolemy's 1st projection". Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_world_map_after_Ptolemy%27s_1st_projection.jpg

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