Atlante di Andrea Bianco dell' anno 1436
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| Atlante di Andrea Bianco dell' anno 1436 | |||
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| A 10-leaf atlas published by Andrea Bianci of Venice in 1436. The last surviving manuscript is MS. Fondo Ant.It. Z.76 Fol. 8 located in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Leaf I is a description. Leaf IX presents the Bianco world map of 1432, a circular, non-Ptolemaic Mappa mundi depicting Biblical locations, such as the Garden of Eden. Leaves II-VIII are submaps including information from nautical charts. Leaf X is an incongruous Ptolemaic Cosmographia, dated to 1436, one of the earliest known.
1813: transferred to Biblioteva Marciana from Contarini family of Venice |
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