Skip to splash images
Yale Center for British Art Home Page
<< YCBA Home
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
<< YCBA Home
Welcome to YCBA Collections Online
The museum is closed for building conservation. We regret that we are unable to accept orders for new collections photography until January 2025.
    Search Options:
Search in
Simple Search
All Fields
Title
Creator
Subject Terms
Call Number
Search Provenance
Fielded
search for
Search
YCBA Collections Search
Toggle facets
Refine your search
Collection
Rare Books and Manuscripts
1
Creator
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
1
Date
1508
1
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
1
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
1
Image Available
Unavailable
1
Classification
Maps & Atlas (printed)
1
Creator Gender
unknown
1
Period
16th century
1
Work Type
atlase
1
engraving
1
woodcut
1
world atlase
[remove]
1
Subject Terms
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.
1
Fürstlich Liechtenstein'sche Fideikommiss Bibliothek (Vienna, Austria) -- Bookplate (BEIN 1975 Folio 65)
1
Geography, Ancient.
1
Guerrinius, Pamphilus -- Inscription (BEIN 1977 Folio 132)
1
Pesaro family -- Ownership.
1
Stöterogge, Nikolaus -- Presentation inscription, 1558 (BEIN 1975 Folio 65)
1
Exhibition History
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
1
Language
Latin
1
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Author additional ss
Marcus, de Benevento.
Remove constraint Author additional ss: Marcus, de Benevento.
Work Type
world atlase
Remove constraint Work Type: world atlase
1
entry found
Sort by collection
collection
relevance
artist (A-Z)
date
title (A-Z)
Number of results to display per page
100 per page
100
per page
50
per page
15
per page
View results as:
List
Masonry
Search Results
1.
In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis uiris utriusq[ue] linguae doctiss. eme[n]data, & cu[m] archetypo Graeco ab ipsis collata / schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correcta a Marco Beneuentano monacho caelestino & Ioanne Cotta Veronensi uiris mathematicis consultissimis ; figura de proiectione spherae in plano quae in libro octauo desiderabatur ab ipsis no[n]dum instaurata sed fere ad inuenta eius. n. uestigia in nullo etiam Graeco codice extabant ; maxima quantitas dier[um] ciuitatu[m], & distantiae locor[um] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti cuiusq[ue] ciuitatis quae in alijs codicibus no[n] erant ; planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Benuentano ... ; noua orbis descriptio ac nuoa oceani nauigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] peruenitur pelagus Marco Benuentano ... aedita ; noua & uniuersalior orbis tabula Ioa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata ; sex tabulae nouiter confectae uidelicet Liuoniae, Hyspaniae, Galliae, Germaniae, Italiae, & Iudeae.
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Virginei partus 1508
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([284] pages, [68] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 34 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts