AGSL GeoDiscovery

Tabvla Moderna Secvnde Porcionis Aphrice

Alternative Title:

Modern map of second half of Africa

Description:

Appears in: Waldseemuller's Ptolemy atlas (1513)

Colored

Companion map to NOR 0286. Waldseemuller ... "produced an edition of Ptolemy with
twenty-seven ancient maps and twenty maps based on contemporary knowledge - the first modern
atlas." This map was reissued in "Strasbourg in 1520, 1522 and 1525; in Lyons in 1535, and
Vienna in 1541".

Woodcut

Dr. Oscar I. Norwich

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/tf649mn5946

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/tf649mn5946

Creator:

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Date Issued:

1513

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, Maps, and Africa, Southern

Rights:

Image from the Dr. Oscar I. Norwich collection of maps of Africa and its islands, 1486 - ca. 1865 courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false