A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with...
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
Illuminated manuscript roll facsimile of Manuscript X 118 in the Royal Library in Stockholm, made by Carl Olausson. Contains a compilation of exerpts from De arte phisicali et de cirurgia by John Arderne. Text is illustrated by miniatures showing vari...
Alternative Title:
De arte phisicali et de cirurgia : [hand-painted replica done as a color vellum scroll during 1929 by Carl Olausson; from the 1412 original housed in the Royal Library of Stockholm]
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Surgery, and Surgery, Medieval
