Geography
by Ptolemy
Call Number: Urb. gr. 83, fols. 112 verso- 113 recto
Publication Date: ca. 15th century
RR, Plate 122: Ptolemy's Geography contains instructions for drawing maps of the entire inhabited world and particular regions, along with the longitudes and latitudes of about eight thousand locations in Europe, Africa, and Asia. There are two versions, the A recension and the B recension, displayed here, with sixty-four smaller regional maps and four large additional maps. Shown here is the additional map of Europe which reveals Ptolemy's systematic exaggeration of west to east distances.