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Ptolemy’s geography in the Franciscan monastery in Hvar, edition from the year 1525

Luka Vukušić ; Croatian State Archives, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Franciscan Monastery in Hvar keeps an example of commented and revi¬sioned latinised edition of Geographike hyphegesis (Geography), by Claudius Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolomaeus), great Greek mathematician, physicist, astronomer, astrologist, cartographer, and geographer. Full title of the example, printed in Strasbourg in 1525, is Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo Bilibaldo Pirckeymhero Interprete/ Annotationes Ioannis De Regio Monte In Errores Commissos A Iacobo Angelo In Translatione Sua. It is divided in following parts: introductional address (inscription) of the translator Wilibald Pirckheimer to Brixen’s bishop Sebastian; eight books of Geographike hyphegesis; representations of maps; index; notes of Johann Mueller de Regio Monte. Representations of 27 Ptolemy’s maps, unfortunately coloured later, and 23 modern maps, which were prepared for this edition by Alsace physicist and astrologer Lorenz Fries, give special value to the example, same as decorative frames at the back of the maps, made in woodcut and also coloured later, which, together with earth and main winds’ representations are considered to be work of Albrecht Dürer.

Keywords

Claudius Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolomaeus); geography; Geographike hyphegesis; Franciscan Monastery in Hvar; Wilibald Pirckheimer; cartography; woodcut; Lorenz Fries; Albrecht Dürer

Hrčak ID:

26404

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26404

Publication date:

26.11.2007.

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