COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
80-180
File Name:
80-180-002
Call number:
H519 P769o /2-SIZE
Map title:
[Title page
Place of Publication:
Paris
Publisher:
V[a]enundatur ab ipso Iodoco Badio Ascensio
Publication date:
Nonis Nouemb. anno. MDXIX
Map size height:
33 cm.
Map size width:
22 cm.
Item description:
woodcut map, leaf XXII
Geographical description:
World map with Europe, Africa, and Asia and with a continent labeled "Perusta." Includes windheads.
Source author:
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
Source title:
Macrobius Aurelius integer: nitidus: suiq[ue] decori ab Ioanne Riuio superioribus annis: & nunc cura Ascensianorum multa diligentius restitutus: cum indicio & amplo & veridico. Addito libello argutissimo Censorini de die natali: eo q[uo] consimilis sit farraginis
Source place:
[Paris]: V[a]enundatur ab ipso Iodoco Badio Ascensio., Nonis Nouemb. anno. MDXIX
Geographic Area:
World
Historical notes:
This work is a commentary of Cicero's Somnium Sciponis [Dream of Scipio] and includes a map of the world illustrating Cicero's theories. "Perusta" represents an impassable torrid zone beyond a boiling sea [Aleus Oceani] which balances the known [at the time] landmass of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Normalized date:
1519
LC bibliographic number:
b22206279
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