File:Ptolemaeus Magna Germania.jpg

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English: The 4th Map of Europe from Ptolemy's Geography, depicting Germany. - The Codex Latinus V. F. 32 is a manuscript edition of Ptolemy's Geography held by the National Library at Naples, Italy. It was photographed for publication in Cosmographia, intro. by Lelio Pagani and photog. by Domenico Lucchetti, in 1975 and 1990. - This is the only map of this Codex currently held in Commons.
Deutsch: EVROPA TABVLA QVARTA – Quarta Europe Tabula continet Germaniam cum insulis sibi adiacentibus. Die Karte zu Magna Germania aus der im Original griechisch verfaßten Geographike Hyphegesis des in Alexandria wirkenden Claudius Ptolemäus (*um 100; † um 175). Spätmittelalterliche Kopie des 15. Jahrhunderts die unter dem Titel Cosmographia erschien. Ptolemäus soll zwischen 125 und 151 tätig gewesen sein. Viele Wissenschaftler gehen davon aus, daß das Kartenwerk entweder vollständig oder zumindest teilweise in späterer Zeit auf der Grundlage des ptolemäischen Textes rekonstruiert worden ist. Der Codex Latinus V F.32 liegt in der Nationalbibliothek Neapel. Das Kartenwerk wird dem in Italien tätigen Deutschen Nicolaus Germanus zugeschrieben.
Date 15. Jahrhundert/31. Oktober 2009
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Nicolaus Germanus  (1420–1490)  wikidata:Q1241997
 
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Nicholaus Germanus; Donnus Nicolaus Germanus; Nicolaus Donis; Donis Nicolaus Germanus; Nicolaus de Donis
Description cartographer and astrologer
Date of birth/death 1420 Edit this at Wikidata 1490 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q1241997
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Map of the Roman Empire and Germania, labeled Magna Germania, in the early 2nd century.
Map of the Roman Empire and Scandinavia and Magna Germania, in the early 2nd century.

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