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Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513
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1493-07-12
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Secunda etas mundi - front
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Secunda etas mundi - front
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Secunda etas mundi - back
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Secunda etas mundi - back
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Caption title.
Relief shown pictorially.
Wood engravings by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurrf.
Upper right: "foliu XIII."
From: Liber chronicarum, 12 July 1493.
Depicts the pre-Columbus world, based on Ptolemy’s Geographia.
Jerusalem is at the center of the map; the Indian Ocean is an enclosed area; and Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East are not shown.
Eastern hemisphere (Known world).
Twelve winds, depicted as heads surrounding the map, are named as well as major places.
A panel of seven creatures borders the left margin.
On verso: three columns of Latin text with the third column bordered by a panel of seven creatures on either side; upper right: "folium XII."
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1 map : hand colored ; 31 x 44 cm, on sheet 46 x61 cm