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Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI. : in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs, pro priaeq[ue] dotes, regionum topographicae effigies, terrae ingenia, quibus sit ut tam differentes & varias specie res, & animatas, & inaminatas, ferat, animalium peregrinorum naturae & picturae, nobiliorum civitatum icones & descriptiones, regnorum initia, incrementa & translationes, regum & principum genealogiae, item omnium gentium mores, leges, religio, mutationes : atq[ue] memorabilium in hunc usque annum 1559, gestarum rerum historia /
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| Title | Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI. : in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs, pro priaeq[ue] dotes, regionum topographicae effigies, terrae ingenia, quibus sit ut tam differentes & varias specie res, & animatas, & inaminatas, ferat, animalium peregrinorum naturae & picturae, nobiliorum civitatum icones & descriptiones, regnorum initia, incrementa & translationes, regum & principum genealogiae, item omnium gentium mores, leges, religio, mutationes : atq[ue] memorabilium in hunc usque annum 1559, gestarum rerum historia / |
| Detail Depicted | Illustrations--Relief--Woodcuts |
| Creator/Author | Munster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 |
| Publisher | Petri, Heinrich; 1508-1579 |
| Place of Publication | Basileae [Switzerland--Basil] |
| Date of Publication | 1559 |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Geography--Early works to 1800
Maps--Early works to 1800
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| Genre Heading | Early printed books--1501-1600 (16th century)
Atlases (Geographic)
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| Bibliographic Elements | Single sheet |
| Printing Method | Letterpress on handmade laid paper |
| Printer | Petri, Heinrich; 1508-1579 |
| Image Production Process | Woodcuts
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| Illustrator | Stimmer, Christopher (?) |
| General Notes | Printing specimen taken from Brown, George M.L. Specimens of woodcuts and engravings; a portfolio of original leaves taken from rare and notable illustrated books. New York, The Foliophiles, 1926.
The woodcuts, although crude, are of considerable historic importance because, as so rarely occurred in early illustrated books, they frequently bear the engraver's initials. "C.S." is probably Christopher Stimmer, but "H.H." which appears on others can hardly be ascribed to Hans Holbein, even though it is known that Holbein made the title borders for the 1556 German edition.
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| Language | Latin |
| Digital Collection | Historical Book Arts Collection |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Special Collections |
| Call Number | SpecColl Rare 096 Sp31 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original text using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 400 dpi in color and saved in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2003. |
| Content | German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar whose Cosmographia (1544; Cosmography) was the earliest German description of the world and a major work in the revival of geographic thought in 16th-century Europe. In 1540 he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, illustrated with 27 woodcut maps after Ptolemy and 21 of Munster's own design. "(Munster, Sebastian" Encyclopedia Britannica from Encyclopedia Britannica Online.) |
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