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A compendium of geographical information taken from a large number of classical sources, arranged alphabetically by place, with a summary of names ("Vrbes celebriores quae in hoc libro continentur") on leaves r4r-r6v. The author was the first to condense the writings of the ancient and med...
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| Language: | Latin |
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[Florence, Italy] :
[Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini],
[5 June 1493]
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| Summary: | A compendium of geographical information taken from a large number of classical sources, arranged alphabetically by place, with a summary of names ("Vrbes celebriores quae in hoc libro continentur") on leaves r4r-r6v. The author was the first to condense the writings of the ancient and medieval geographers into one work |
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| Item Description: | 26 lines, with printed marginalia, 143 x 83 (107) mm. Capital spaces with guide letters; initial letter of each paragraph set out Collation: 4to: a⁴ b-q⁸ r⁶ [$4 (-a1,2, r4) signed]; 130 leaves, unnumbered Imprint from ISTC. Colophon, leaf r3v, reads in full: "Impressit Florenti[ae] Antonius Miscominus Anno Salutis .M.CCCCLXXXXIII. Nonis Iuniis." With Miscomini's woodcut device on leaf r6v (device not printed in all copies, for example British Museum IA.27207, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Res/4 A.gr.a. 277) Title and text preceded by five pages containing a dedicatory letter from the author to Matthaeus Bossus and the reply of Bossus to the author Title from title page, leaf a3v Title in Miscomini's full woodcut border, with two mermen at head, and two eagles flanking a blank shield for a coat of arms at foot With a T-O map (circle divided by a T into the three continents, with Asia in the top hemisphere), on leaf a4v, and above it a diagram of the six zones of the world, both consisting of type, printed in black, divided and framed within a composition of rules printed in red; on leaf q5r is a similarly composed diagram of the climatic zones, with the type set vertically reading up. See T. Campbell, The earliest printed maps, 1472-1500, no. 84 (page 112), describing the red framing as woodcut, and the map as having "the narrow technical distinction of being the first to be printed in more than one colour." |
| Physical Description: | [260] pages : 1 map, 2 diagrams ; 22 cm (4to) |
| Place of Publication: | Italy -- Florence |