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Lord Nicolas the German (Donnus Nicholas Germanus), cartographer
Johann the Blockcutter of Armsheim (Johannes Schnitzer or Johannes de Armssheim), engraver
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Ptolemy
Jacobus Angelus, translator
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English: The world map from Leinhart Holle's 1482 edition of Nicolaus Germanus's emendations to Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.
Date 1482
date QS:P571,+1482-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer http://cartanciennes.free.fr/liste_divers.php#mappemonde_roy.jpg
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11:46, 20 November 2007Thumbnail for version as of 11:46, 20 November 20073,646 × 2,656 (3.43 MB)Joopr{{Information |Description=Ptolemeic World map |Source=http://cartanciennes.free.fr/liste_divers.php#mappemonde_roy.jpg |Date=1482 |Author=Germanus, Nicholas; Armsshein, Johannes de |Permission= |other_versions=World of Ptolemy as shown by Johannes de Arm

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