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Image of Lake Como from Ptolemy's atlas

Discovering 16th Century Atlases

18th March 202018th March 2020 Paula Williams

Blog written by Rosie Seidel, MSc in Book History and Material Culture student at the University of Edinburgh. In an effort to increase the discoverability of and access to maps in the collections, I have been working to index and identify editions of 15th century Ptolemaic and Ortelian atlases.

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