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Ptolemaic Britain

The "1st Map of Europe": 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 theft and purchase by the British Museum. It 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. False color version.

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
596 × 466 pixels

Public domain

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

This status rests on the map's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.

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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"Ptolemaic Britain". 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:Ptolemaic_Britain.jpg

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