Category:Ulm Ptolemy

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Cosmographia Nicolai Germani impressa Ulmae anno 1482
The 3rd recension of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia modified by donus Nicolaus Germanus (donus being a title, dominus), Order of Saint Benedict, native of Ulm. In Florence he produced fine atlases for the upper clergy. As with all Germanus’ editions and recensions, the text is the 1410 translation of Jacopo d'Angelo from Greek to Latin. The world map was a woodcut made by Johannes Schnitzer from Armsheim. The recension was produced for Pope Paul II (died in 1471). In 1468 he loaned the manuscript to Germanus for printing by his nephew, Lienhart Holle, at Ulm. After over a decade of preparation the printing in 1482 was so expensive that Holle went out of business. The manuscript was never returned to the Vatican, and has not reappeared. The world map found by accident in the library of Schloss Wolfegg in 1900 attesting to the word “America” is not the one that went with the 1482 manuscript. Germanus updated the names throughout. The 2nd recension, later in 1482, added 3 Tabulae Novae to Book 8, while the 3rd added two more. A third recension was published in 1486. The 1482 printed book is generally called “the Ulm Cosmographia” or “the Ulm edition.” Multiple copies still exist.

1468: lent to Lienhart Holle by Vatican Library

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