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Latina: Secunda etas mundi; secunda etas müdi |
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English: This page from the celebrated "Nuremberg Chronicle" of 1493 depicts the world as commonly known to most educated Europeans before the discoveries of Columbus in the Americas were understood. The woodcut map reflects a combination of ancient Greco-Roman geographical understanding with symbolism based upon Judaeo-Christian traditions. The shape of the map derives from textual descriptions of the world passed down through the Middle Ages from Ptolemy’s second-century Geography without great attention to detail. Twelve windheads surround the map, the outline of which is held up by three figures depicting the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom all peoples in the three known continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe were believed to descend. To the left of the map are seven depictions of monstrous or freakish characters situated to suggest that such creatures inhabit the edges of the world. A further fourteen of these mythic monstrous figures, inspired by ancient sources such as Pliny, Pomponius Mela, Solinus, and Herodotus' Fables appear on the reverse side of the page. |
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| Source | UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
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| Place of publication | Nuremberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dimensions | height: 31 cm (12.2 in); width: 44 cm (17.3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | woodcut print on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artwork-references | Shirley, Rodney W. (1984) The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700, London: The Holland Press, no. 19 , pp. 18–19 "First printed as Volume 9 of the Cartographica series, 1983." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries as part of a cooperation project. The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is part of the University of Texas at Arlington, a public research university located in Arlington, Texas.
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The author died in 1519, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
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