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Tabula noua totius orbis.

Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut that appears in an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published in 1541. Includes illustrations and notes. Manuscript "246" in upper right corner. Indecipherable drawing off the lower west coast of Africa. Manuscript inscriptions and red bordered label with manuscript "40/48" on verso. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 47

Date
1541
Mapmaker / publisher
Fries, Lorenz; Trechsel, Gaspard; Ptolemy
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,472 × 4,680 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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"Tabula noua totius orbis." (1541). Fries, Lorenz; Trechsel, Gaspard; Ptolemy. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tabula_noua_totius_orbis._LOC_2017585806.jpg

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