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Cosmographįe intro / ductio: cum quibusdam Geome- / trįe ac Astronomįe princi / pijs ad eam rem / necessarijs. / Jnsuper quattuor Americi Ue / spucij nauigationes.

Title
Cosmographįe intro / ductio: cum quibusdam Geome- / trįe ac Astronomįe princi / pijs ad eam rem / necessarijs. / Jnsuper quattuor Americi Ue / spucij nauigationes. / Uniuersalis Cosmographįe descriptio / tam in solido q[uam] plano/ eis etiam / insertis qųe Ptholom̨eo / ignota/ a nuperis / reperta sunt. / [2 lines of verse]
Author
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?
Publication
[Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1509]

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Additional Authors
Ringmann, Matthias, 1482-1511.
Description
32 l. diagrs. (1 fold.); 22 cm. (4to.).
Alternative Title
Cosmographiae introductio
Subjects
Note
  • Colophon, leaf 32a: Pressit apud Argentora- / cos hoc opus ... Joannes / grüniger. Anno post natu sal / uatoré supra sesquimil- / lesimũ Nono. / Joanne Adelpho Mulicho ... Castigatore.
  • Signatures: A-B⁴, C⁶, D⁴, E⁶, F⁸.
  • Gothic type (Proctor 9915); 37 lines.
  • With verses by Philesius [i.e. Matthias Ringmann] on verso of t.-p. and dedication by Martinus Ilacomilus [i.e. Waldseemüller] on leaf 2.
  • Suggestion of "America" as name for the newly discovered lands on sig. C₂a and C₃b.
  • Also attributed to M. Ringmann.
Indexed In (note)
  • Sabin
  • Harrisse BAV
  • Arents, G. Tobacco
  • Ruge: Aelteres kartographisches Material
Provenance (note)
  • Copy in Arents: Ex Libris, no. 2563, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow; and, B I [cipher of Brayton Ives], no. 1026 (bookplate).
Call Number
*KB 1509 (Waldseemüller, M. Cosmographįe intro / ductio)
OCLC
11511390
Author
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?
Title
Cosmographįe intro / ductio: cum quibusdam Geome- / trįe ac Astronomįe princi / pijs ad eam rem / necessarijs. / Jnsuper quattuor Americi Ue / spucij nauigationes. / Uniuersalis Cosmographįe descriptio / tam in solido q[uam] plano/ eis etiam / insertis qųe Ptholom̨eo / ignota/ a nuperis / reperta sunt. / [2 lines of verse] /
Imprint
[Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1509]
Indexed In:
Sabin 101022
Harrisse BAV 60
Arents, G. Tobacco 1-A
Ruge: Aelteres kartographisches Material, V², 107
Provenance
Copy in Arents: Ex Libris, no. 2563, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow; and, B I [cipher of Brayton Ives], no. 1026 (bookplate).
Local Note
Copy 1: Binding, of vellum.
Copy 2: Imperfect: fold. diagr. wanting, supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile done so carelessly that the inscription on the verso is in 15, instead of 14, lines.
Copy 2: Binding, by Hayday, of maroon morocco, gilt.
Copy 2: Lenox Collection.
Copy 3: Imperfect: last leaf mutilated slightly.
George Arents Collection on Tobacco.
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Added Author
Ringmann, Matthias, 1482-1511. Attributed name
Research Call Number
*KB 1509 (Waldseemüller, M. Cosmographįe intro / ductio)
Arents 1-A
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