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Munster's Geographia
1540
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GEOGRAPHIA / VNIVERSALIS, VETVS ET NOVA, / COMPLECTENS
/ CLAVDII PTO- / LEMAEI ALEXANDRINI ENARRATIO- / NIS LIBROS VIII. / Quorum
primus noua translatione Pirckheimheri et / accessione commentarioli illustrior
quàm hacte- / nus fuerit, redditus, est. / Reliqui cum græco
& aliis uetustis exe[m]plaribus col- / lati, in infinitis ferè
locis castigatiores facti sunt. / Addita sunt insuper Scholia, quibus exoleta
urbium / montium, fluuiorumq nomina ad nostri seculi mo- / rem exponuntur.
/ Succedunt tabulæ Ptolemaice, opera Sebastiani Mun / steri nouo
paratæ modo. / His adiectæ sunt plurime nouæ tabulæ,
moderna[m] or- / bis faciem literis & pictura explicantes, inter quas
/ quædam antehàc Ptolemæo non fuerunt additæ.
/ Vltimo annexum est compendium geographice de- / scriptionis, in quo uarij
gentium & regionum ri- / tus & mores explicantur. / Prefixus est
quoq uniuerso operi index memorabiliu[m] / populorum, ciuitatum, fluuiorum,
montium, ter- / rarum, lacuum &c. / BASILIEAE APVD HENRICVM PETRVM
/ MENSE MARTIO ANNO / [rule] / M.D.XL. |
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'1' [text on reverse] ORBIS / VNIVERSALIS / DESCRI= / ptio, in qua
præter Ptolemæi alio- / rumq ueterum Cosmographoru[m] / inuestigationem,
Africæ & item In- / diæ extrema littora ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TYPVS ORBIS VNIVERSALIS [2a, ob - 4a,
ob] |
261 x 348; with title: 275 x 348 |
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'2' [text on reverse] DESCRIP / TIO ORBIS GENERALIS, / ut à
Ptolemæo situs eius secu[n]dum lon- / gum & latum est deprehensus.
Longi- / tudo tenet duntaxat semicirculum, / hoc est, ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TYPVS ORBIS A PTOL> DESCRIPTVS
[2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
252 x 338; with title: 263 x 338 |
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'3' [text on reverse] HIBERNIA / ET ALBION, EVROPAE TABVLA I. / Continet
hæc tabula insulas Brita[n]nicas, nem / pe Hiberniam & Albionem,
quam hodie An- / gliam & Scotiam uocant, ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE I > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
262 x 348; with title: 272 x 348 |
| 4 |
'4' [text on reverse] HISPANIA / SECVNDA EVROPAE TABVLA. / Continet
hæc tabula totam Hispaniam in tribus pro / uintijs partitam cum insulis
sibi adiacentibus. Paralle / lus ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE II > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
265 x 348; with title: 275 x 348 |
| 5 |
'5' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] GALLIA / TERTIA EVROPAE
TABVLA, CONTINET GAL / lias in quatuor prouincijs cum insulis sibi adiacentibus.
/ Parallelus ipsarum ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE III > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
259 x 332; with title: 271 x 332 |
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'6' [text on reverse] GERMANI / AM MAGNAM CONTINET HAEC / quarta Europæ
tabula, cu[m] insulis sibi adia- / centibus. Parallelus ipsius medius pro-
/ portionem habet ad meridianum, quam / tria ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE IIII > [2a, ob - 4a,
ob] |
264 x 333; with title: 274 x 333 |
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'7' [text on reverse] RHAETIA ET / VINDELICIA, NORICVM, etc. / Complectitur
hæc quinta Europæ tabula Rhætiam, Vinde- / liciam, Noricu[m],
duas Pa[n]nonias, & totam Illiridem cu[m] insulis / adiacentibus. ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE V > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
257 x 335; with title: 269 x 335 |
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'8' [text on reverse] ITALIA ET / CORSICA, sexta Europæ tabula.
/ Continet hæc tabula Italiam & Cyrnum insulam, / cum insulis
Italiæ adiacentibus ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE VI > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
258 x 342; with title: 270 x 342 |
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'9' [text on reverse] SARDINIA / ET SICILIA, SEPTIMA EVROPAE / TABVLA.
/ Continet hæc tabula Sardiniam & Siciliam in- / sulas. Parallelus...
omni parte pe= / lago, ab ortu ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE VII < [cloverleaf
pointing left] [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
254 x 344; with title: 270 x 344
In the text on the reverse, the page number is printed outside the woodblock
border; the penultimate line of the text in the central cartouche of the
map has 'Thermæ'. |
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'10' [text on reverse] SARMATI / AM EVROPEAM CONTINET HAEC / octaua
tab. & est in eo TAVRICA Cher / sonesus. Parallelus ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE VIII > [1a, ob - 5a,
ob] |
255 x 336; with title: 267 x 336 |
| 11 |
'11' [text on reverse] NONA EVRO / PAE TABVLA continet IAZYGES METANASTAS,
DACI= / AM, utranq Mysiam Thraciam & Chersonesum. ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE IX > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
257 x 334; with title: 271 x 334 |
| 12 |
'12' [text on reverse] GRAECIA / Decima & ultima Europæ tabula,
continet Macedonia[m], Epi / rum Achaiam & Peloponnesum, insulasq Cretam
& Eu- / boeam cum reliquis adiacentibus insulis. ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA EVROPAE X > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
256 x 323; with title: 266 x 323
The text on the reverse is flanked by 2 woodcuts, each surmounted by
a cherub. |
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'13' [text on reverse] APHRICAE / TABVLA PRIMA, continet ambas Mauritani-
/ as, Tingitana[m] & Cæsariensem. Parallelus eius / medius ratione[m]
...
[cloverleaf pointing left] APHRICAE TABVLA I > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
257 x 332; with title: 269 x 332 |
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'14' [text on reverse] SECVNDA / APHRICAE TABVLA, continet Aphricam
mi- / norem & insulas quæ circa ipsam sunt. Parallelus / eius
medius ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] APHRICAE TABVLA II > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
256 x 337; with title: 269 x 337 |
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'15' [text on reverse] AEGYPTVM / MARMARICAM ET CYRENAICAM, continet
hæc ter- / tia Africæ tabula cum adiacentibus insulis. Parallelus
eius / medius ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA AFRICAE III > [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
257 x 338; with title: 268 x 338 |
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'16' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] QVARTA / AFRICAE
tabula continet interiorem Libyam & Ae- / thiopiam quæ sub Aegypto
est, & eam quæ interius est / cum insulis sibi adiacentibus.
...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA AFRICAE IIII > [2a, ob
- 4a, ob] |
255 x 343; with title: 268 x 343 |
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'17' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA I> / ASIAE.
/ COntinet hec tabula Pontum & Bithynia[m] / & quæ proprie
Asia dicitur, ac Lyciam / & Galatia[m], Pamphiliam item, Cappadocia[m]
/ & Ciliciam. ... [The 'C' of 'COntinet' is a woodblock capital]
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE I < [2a, ob -
4a, ob] |
253 x 343; with title: 267 x 343 |
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'18' [text on reverse] ASIAE II< / Tabula, continet Sarmatia[m]
Asiaticam. / Parallelus ipsius medius ratione[m] habet / ad ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE II < [2a, ob -
4a, ob] |
254 x 340; with title: 270 x 340 |
| 19 |
'19' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] TERTIA / ASIAE tabula
continet Colchidem, Iberiam, Albani- / am & Armenia[m] maiorem. Parallelus
ipsius medius ra / tionem ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE III< [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
252 x 341; with title: 267 x 341 |
| 20 |
'20' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] QVARTA / ASIAE tabula,
continet Cyprum, Syriam, Palestina[m], / Arabiam duplicem, Mesopotamia[m]
& Babyloniam. Pa / rallelus ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE IIII< [2a, ob -4a, ob] |
255 x 348; with title: 270 x 348 |
| 21 |
'21' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA V< / ASIAE.
/ COntinet hæc tabula Assyriam, Susianam, Mediam, Per / sidem, Parthiam
& Carmaniam desertam. Parallelus / ipsius ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE V [2a, ob -4a, ob] |
255 x 346; with title: 269 x 346 |
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'22' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] ARABIAM / Felicem
atq. Carmaniam continet hæc VI. Asiæ tabula. Paral / lelus
ipsius ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE VI< [2a, ob -4a, ob] |
256 x 245; with title: 270 x 245 |
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'23' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] SEPTIMA / ASIAE
Tabula co[n]tinet Margianam, Bactriana[m], / Sogdianam, Sacas &
Scythiam intra Imau[m] mo[n]tem. An / numerantur ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE VII< [2a, ob -4a, ob] |
254 x 344; with title: 269 x 344 |
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'24' [text on reverse] OCTAVA ASIAE Ta- / bula co[n]tinet Scythiam
extra Imaum / mo[n]tem & Sericam. Parallelus ipi- / us medius, ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE VIII< [2a, ob -4a, ob] |
255 x 314; B: 255 x 348; with title: 270 x 348 |
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'25' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] NONA A- / SIAE Tabula
continet Ariam, Paropanisadas, / Drangianam, Arachosiam & Gedrosiam.
Paralle / lus eius ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE IX< [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
257 x 332; with title: 269 x 332 |
| 26 |
'26' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] ASIAE X. / Tabula
continet INDIAM intra Gangem flu. cum adia / centibus sibi insulis. ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE X< [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
254 x 346; with title: 268 x 346 |
| 27 |
'27' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] VNDECI- / MA ASIAE
Tabula continet INDIAM extra / Gangem flu. & Sinas. ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE XI< [2a, ob - 4a, ob]
Inset: 'Habet hæc India tigres, gallos bar / batos, psitacos
albos &c' [1a, olb - 1c, olb] |
253 x 286; B: 253 x 345; with title: 266 x 345 |
| 28 |
'28' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] ASIAE / Tabula XII.
continet Taprobanam insu / lam cum cæteris insulis circa ipsam. Paral
/ lelus ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TABVLA ASIAE XII< [2a, ob - 4a, ob]
Inset: [Untitled Drawing Of An Elephant] [1a, olb - 1c, olb] |
252 x 228; B: 252 x 242; with title: 266 x 342 |
| 29 |
'29' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] EVROPA / PRIMA NOVA
TABVLA. Hæc una est ex tribus or- / bis partibus, complectitur terra[m]
eximie fertilem, ha- / bens ...
E VROPA PRIMA NOVA TABVLA [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
254 x 336; with title: 267 x 336 |
| 30 |
'30' [text on reverse] ANGLICA- / næ insulæ noua descrip-
/ tio, complectens & HI= / BERNIAE ET SCOTI / AE propinquiores limi-
/ tes. / Reliquæ quæ hic utraq; insula / obiter dicenda fuerant,
inueni= / es in Appendice geographica, / pagina 163.
[cloverleaf pointing right] ANGLIA II> NOVA TABVLA [2a, ob
- 4a, ob] |
252 x 342; with title: 267 x 342 |
| 31 |
'31' [text on reverse] HISPANIA> / HISPANIA VNDIQVE ALLVITVR MARI,
/ excepto eo latere quo Galliam co[n]tingit, ibi enim altissimis, Py /
reneis montibus ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] HISPANIA III> NOVA TABVLA [2a,
ob - 4a, ob] |
255 x 342; with title: 268 x 342 |
| 32 |
'32' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] GALLIA / GALLIAM
SIC DICTAM PVTANT À / Galate rege ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] GALLIA IIII> NOVA TABVLA [2a, ob - 4a,
ob] |
254 x 344; with title: 268 x 344 |
| 33 |
'33' [text on reverse] HELVETIAE / NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Rhetiam & Heluetia[m]
tibi offert hec / tabula ...
HELVETIA PRIMA RHENI ET V> NOVA TABVLA> [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
254 x 341; with title: 267 x 341 |
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'34' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] GERMANIA> / De Germania
clarissima natione & dulcissima patria nostra, multa / hîc ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] GERMANIA, VI> NOVA TABVLA> [2a,
ob - 4a, ob] |
255 x 343; with title: 269 x 343 |
| 35 |
'35' [text on reverse] ALSATIA ET BRIS / GOIA> / Alsatia uel secundum
alios Elsatia, ab Illa seu Alsa fluuio, ut alij uocant, id / habet nominis
...
[cloverleaf pointing left] ALSATIA ET BRISGOIA II> RHENI ET / VII.
NOVA / TABVLA [1a, ob - 5a, ob] |
258 x 345; with title: 273 x 345 |
| 36 |
'36' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] TERTIA RHENI / TABVLA.
/ COntinet hæc tabula Marcam Badensem, Vuasgoiam, Vuestricham, /
ditionem ... [the 'C' of 'Continet' is a woodblock capital]
[cloverleaf pointing right] TERTIA RHENI NOVA TABVLA [2a, ob - 4a,
ob] |
258 x 345; with title: 272 x 345 |
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'37' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] HVNO- / RVM PRAESIDIVM.
/ LA regio, quam uulgo Hunes- / ruck uoca[n]t, putatur olim fuisse / Hunorum
... [The 'L' of 'LA' is a woodblock capital]
[cloverleaf pointing right] QVARTA RHENI ET IX> NOVA TAB> [2a, ob
- 4a, ob] |
259 x 350; with title: 273 x 350 |
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'38' [text on reverse] BRABANTIA ET / GELDRIA< / Continet tabula
ista Brabantiam, cuius termini sunt ab oriente Mosa fluui= / us ...
BRABANTIA V> RHENI ET X< NOVA TABVLA< [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
259 x 342; with title: 273 x 342 |
| 39 |
'39' [text on reverse] SVEVIA ET BAVARIA / Nulla natio in Germania
tam diu retinuit nome[n] suum ut Sueui, quippe qui longe / fuerunt ...
[catchword] / quen- /
[cloverleaf pointing right] SVEVIA ET BAVARIA XI> NOVA TABVLA> [2a,
ob - 4a, ob] |
260 x 347; with title: 274 x 347 |
| 40 |
'40' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] FRANCONIA> / Hæc
& Francia orientalis appellatur, habetq id nominis à Franco
Sicam- / brorum ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] FRANCONIA, XII> NOVA TABVLA> [2a, ob
- 4a, ob] |
260 x 347; with title: 274 x 347 |
| 41 |
'41' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] SCHONLANDIA> / Hanc
alij uocant, Schondaniam, id est, amoena[m] Daniam, quam Plinius Scan-
/ diam, ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] SCHONLANDIA XIII NOVA TABVLA [2a, ob
- 4a, ob] |
258 x 346; with title: 273 x 346 |
| 42 |
'42' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] POLONIAE / ET VNGARIAE
DESCRIPTIO. Vngariæ regio multo / tempore peregrinarum ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] POLONIA ET VNGARIA, XV> NOVA TABVLA>
[2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
259 x 347; with title: 273 x 347 |
| 43 |
'43' [text on reverse] ITALIA NOVA. / ESt Italia peninsula, undiq preterquam
ubi alpibus iungitur, mari cin / cta ... [The 'E' of 'Est' is a woodblock
capital; the 3rd line ends] ... ceu- / ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] ITALIA XIIII> NOVA TABVLA. [2a, ob -
4a, ob] |
252 x 335; with title: 268 x 335 |
| 44 |
'44' [text on reverse] TERRA SANCTA / HAec particularis Syriæ
prouincia primum Terra Chnaan, deinde ter / ra Israël ... [The 'H'
of 'Haec' is a woodblock capital; the 2nd line ends] ... co- / ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] TERRA SANCTA XVI> NOVA TAB> [2a,
ob - 4a, ob] |
257 x 345; with title: 271 x 345 |
| 45 |
'45' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] NOVARVM INSV- /
LARVM DESCRIPTIO. Infinitus ferè est numerus nouaru[m] insularum,
que / post annu[m] ...
NOVAE INSVLAE, XVII> NOVA TABVLA> [2a, ob - 4a, ob] |
258 x 345; with title: 270 x 345 |
| 46 |
'46' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] AFRICA NOVA / AFrica
una ex tribus orbis partibus, latissima est regio multorum regno- / rum
... [The 'A' of 'AFrica' is a woodblock capital]
[cloverleaf pointing right] AFRICA XVIII> NOVA TABVLA [2a, ob -
4a, ob] |
257 x 346; with title: 272 x 346 |
| 47 |
'47' [text on reverse] INDIA NOVA> / Nouam India[m] tibi lector in
ista tabula exhibemus cum in- / finitis insulis. Dico noua[m], quod longè
post Ptolemeu[m] ab Eu- / ropeis ...
[cloverleaf pointing right] INDIA EXTREMA, XIX> NOVA TABVLA> [2a,
ob - 4a, ob] |
258 x 346; with title: 272 x 346 |
| 48 |
'48' [text on reverse] [cloverleaf pointing right] LACVS CON- / STANTIENSIS.
/ LAcum Constantiensem cum circu[m]iacente regione nouis ob id accen= /
suimus tabulis quod ob sui magnitudinem mare ... [The 'L' of 'Lacus' is
a woodblock capital]
[cloverleaf pointing right] LACVS CONSTAN> XX> TAB< NOVA [2a,
ob - 4a, ob] |
262 x 340; with title: 275 x 340 |
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[text] . / finis. / BASILEAE APVD HENRICVM PETRVM / Mense Martio AN.
M. D. XL |
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