• Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo / Bilibaldo Pirckeymhero interprete ; annotationes Ioannis de Regio Monte in errores commissos a Iacobo Angelo in translatione sua.

Collections:
  • Welcome Additions
  • Rare Books
  • Ancient and Modern Greek Collections at PUL
  • Digital Library Selections
  • Treasures of Rare Book Division
  • Annotated Books
Author:
  • Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
Language:
Subject:
Description:
  • Imprint from colophon.
  • The maps are the same as in Grieninger's 1522 edition.
  • The two Princeton copies contain different issues of many pages: whereas the typesetting remains identical in each version, the woodcut borders and ornamental headpieces are either present or absent in the respective issues.
  • ExKa copy The text block is made up from two distinct copies: the leaves of the Geographia and the Index are devoid of any annotations while the leaves of the maps are heavily annotated, chiefly in a consistent italic hand, but other hands are present as well. One leaf in the Geographia has been inserted (that before bk 8, c. 1). This inserted leaf is annotated and is kindred to the annotated leaves of the maps.
  • ExKa copy Tipped onto the leaf facing map 28 (Oceani occidentalis seu terre nove tabula) is a typewritten English translation of six ms. Latin annotations on this map of the New World.
  • ExKa copy 2 Purchased in 2016 from a Belgian private collection. The text block is made up from two distinct copies: while the leaves with maps are devoid of annotations, the text pages of the Geographia are heavily annotated by the same italic hands found in the ExKa (Kane) copy. Thus, the two long-separated parts of this annotated copy, each bound with the necessary leaves from another copy (or two), have been reunited at Princeton.
View in catalog:
Creator:
  • Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Call number:
  • EXKA Ptolemy 1525a
  • EXKA Ptolemy 1525
Extent:
  • [260] p. : ill. (diagrams), 50 double maps ; 40 cm.
Format:
  • Book
Publisher:
  • Argentoragi [Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, 1525.
Alternative:
  • Geographicae enarrationis libri octo.
Binding note:
  • ExKa copy is rebacked with contemporary boards in morocco stamped in blind, evidence of ties present.
Created:
  • 1525-01-01T00:00:00Z
Location:
  • Special Collections EXKA Ptolemy 1525a
  • Special Collections EXKA Ptolemy 1525
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/np193c809
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Title page
  • Liber 1
  • Liber 2
  • Liber 3
  • Liber 4
  • Liber 5
  • Liber 6
  • Liber 7
  • Liber 8
  • Index
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • New World
Former owner:
  • Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944
  • Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943
Uniform title:
  • Geographia. Latin
References:
  • Van Duzer, Chet. “Reuniting the Two Halves of an Extraordinary Annotated Book: The Princeton 1525 Ptolemy.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 79, no. 1, 2022, pp. 12–37.
Contributor:
  • Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476
Available online:
Provenance:
  • ExKa copy has bookplate of Grenville Kane, who purchased this book from Giuseppe Martini in 1921.
  • ExKa copy has signature on titlepage: Alexandro Volpy.