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8 Mosque of Yeni Jami and Saint Sophia from the Golden Horn
8 Mosque of Yeni Jami and Saint Sophia from the Golden Horn
28 Return of Sultan Mahmead from the Mosque (Vignette)
28 Return of Sultan Mahmead from the Mosque (Vignette)
1561 - Ptolemy/Ruscelli - Europæ Tabula IX
1561 Ptolemy/Ruscelli Map: Europæ Tabula IX
The map comes from Ruscelli's 'Ptolemaeus La Geographia' which published new (Tabula Nova) maps along with Ptolemy's originals.
The map is from the 1561 first edition of the atlas, published in Venice.
This wood block printed Ptolemaic map is one of earliest printed representation of south eastern Europe and Balkan countries including Byzantium. The Danube river flows across the region from west to east. Byzantium, soon to be Constantinople, is marked on the Bosphorus between the Black and Aegean Seas.
Outline hand coloring.
1561 - Ptolemy/Ruscelli - Europæ Tabula IX
1578 - Münster - Constantinople
A woodcut view of Istanbul/Constantinople from Münster's German edition of the Cosmographia.
1578 - Münster - Constantinople
1595 - Ortelius - Thraciae Veteris Typus
Antique map of Ancient Thrace, 1595, A. Ortelius, (1649, J. Janssonius), after G. Gastaldi
Title: ΘΡΑΚΗ. Thraciæ Veteris Typvs [Thraciae Veteris Typus] (Map of Ancient Thrace)
Cartouche I: Loca Circa Byzantium Incertae Positionis (Uncertain Places Around Byzantium)
Cartouche II: Thraciae Aliquot Incogniti Situs Loca (Several Unknown Locations in Thrace)
