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Iouernia kai Alouionos Nesoi
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Iouernia kai Alouionos Nesoi

The left half of the 1st European Map, depicting the British Isles: Ireland (, "Iwernia British Island", i.e. Hibernia) and Great Britain (, "Alwionos British Island", i.e. Albion) from an early 15th-century Greek manuscript copy of Ptolemy's Geography (MS Gr Z 388 =333 f. 53 v.) 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
459 × 608 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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"Iouernia kai Alouionos Nesoi". Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iouernia_kai_Alouionos_Nesoi.jpg

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