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Ptolemaei Tabulae Cosmographicae Facsimile Edition

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Ptolemaei Tabulae Cosmographicae is a landmark printed codex of Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia, one of the foundational works of Renaissance cartography. The 1486 edition was produced in Ulm by Johann Reger, closely following an earlier 1482 German printing and based on Italian manuscript sources. It contains Ptolemy’s geographical text paired with a suite of woodcut maps showing the known world according to ancient coordinates, including regional depictions of Europe, Africa, and Asia. This Ulm edition helped transmit classical geographic knowledge across northern Europe and influenced later mapmaking.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Ptolemaei Tabulae Cosmographicae": Ptolemaei Tabulae Cosmographicae facsimile edition, published by De Agostini/UTET, 2001

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Ptolemaei Tabulae Cosmographicae

Rome/Turin: De Agostini/UTET, 2001

  • Commentary (Italian) by Bortolami, Sante; Orpianesi, Fabio; Tomain, Nada
  • Limited Edition: 2999 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Ptolemaei Tabulae Cosmographicae: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

The edition is based on an incunabulum from the Historical Library of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, chosen for its excellent craftsmanship and preservation. To better match the original, several pages were replaced: the first printed page, which was irreparably damaged, is shown as found; pages A2, A3, and A4, as well as the "Prima Europe" page and the last printed page with the printer’s seal, were sourced from another incunabulum at the Royal Academy of History in Madrid. Additionally, the initial capital of the page starting with "Seconda Europe" was taken from a different incunabulum at the Universidad Complutense.

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