Morea penisola [map].

Author
Porcacchi, Thomaso, approximately 1530-1585? [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Italian
Published/​Created
[In Venetia : Appresso Simon Galignani & Girolamo Porro, 1576?]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:2,130,000]. (E 21°02ʹ00ʺ--E 23°37ʹ00ʺ/N 38°26ʹ00ʺ--N 36°17ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 11 x 14 cm. on sheet 30 x 20 cm.

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Subject(s)
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Notes
  • Appears in the author's L'isole piu famose del mondo, descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano ..., p.101.
  • The map appear in various editions of the atlas from 1572 to 1620. In later editions of the atlas the printing plate appears to have deteriorated. Page number varies in later editions.
  • Map of Peloponnesus set in a page of text; relief shown pictorially.
  • Text in Italian on verso.
Source acquisition
Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund and matching funds provided by Amelia Brown '99 and Graham Elliott '01.
References
Zacharkis, C.G. Catalogue of printed maps of Greece 2731/1783
This map appears in the atlas under the title
  • Descrittione della Morea
OCLC
166322530
International Standard Recording Code
  • HM 2010-37
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