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    Etymologiae, Guntherus Ziner, 1472
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    Author
    Guntherus Ziner
    Title
    Etymologiae, Guntherus Ziner, 1472
    Description
    • T and O style mappa mundi (map of the known world) from the first printed version of Isidorus' Etymologiae (Kraus 13). The book was written in 623 and first printed in 1472 at Augsburg by one Günther Zainer (Guntherus Ziner), Isidor's sketch thus becoming the oldest printed map of the occident.
    • Note: T-O-maps are typically displayed "East-up", show Jerusalem at the center and the paradise at the outmost East, balanced by the pillars of Hercules at the outmost West.
    Date 1472
    date QS:P571,+1472-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    Source/Photographer https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/interactives/heavens-and-earth/earth/artifact6-earth.html
    Other versions
    • Same map in different sample of the book.
      Same map in different sample of the book.
    • Same, cropped
      Same, cropped
    • Same map in 12th century Isidorian manuscript
      Same map in 12th century Isidorian manuscript
    • The T and O scheme: According to Augustine of Hippo (354-430), "Asia's size equals the sum of Europe's and Africa's".
      The T and O scheme: According to Augustine of Hippo (354-430), "Asia's size equals the sum of Europe's and Africa's".

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