Cordiform projection., From Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis ... [Venice : Jacopo Pencio, 1511]., Lanman Collection; dgvmp2008., Left side of the map indicates climates; right side shows zodiacal signs., Map is known as the Bernardus Sylvanus world map., Map is printed in two colors, red and black., Silvani does not show any part of the new world on this map., The verso of the right part of map is showing the western part of the British Isles., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Jacopo Pencio,
Subject (Name):
Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565, Pencio, Jacopo, fl. 1486-1530, and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia
Followed by short chapters on the description and preparation of medicines, pastes and drinks. and On the body and sickness. Ends abruptly in Maqālah 7, faṣl 43 (of 60).
Description:
According to most sources, Hippocrates did not write a work with this title; Dioscurides did, but the text differs from the present one., May be later than sixteenth century., Purchased from Hassan Sami in 1991 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Water-stained and badly worm-eaten, affecting text., and With: 1 other title.