Detail View: Rylands Collection: Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis , etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa

Image Number: 
JRL17070096
Reference Number: 
R151098
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Image Title: 
Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis , etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa
Alternative Image Title: 
Munster's map of Africa
Translated Image Title: 
Map of the whole of Africa based on Ptolemaic sources
Parent Work Title: 
Cosmographiae universalis lib VI.
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Munster's Cosmographia
Creator: 
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Creator Role: 
Cartographer
Creator: 
Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579
Creator Role: 
Printer
Date Created: 
1552 
Publication Details: 
Basileae: apud H. Petri; Switzerland Basel
Description: 
Black and white, double page woodcut map of the continent of Africa from Sebastien Münster's famous "Cosmographia".
Language Code: 
lat
Language: 
Latin
Category of Material: 
Printed
Category of Material: 
Maps
Technique Used: 
Woodcut (process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2017-06-26
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2017-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB