Details

Subject(s)

• Karpathos (Greece : Municipality)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Greece—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Greece—Karpathos Island—1576 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Porcacchi, Thomaso, approximately 1530-1585?. Isole piu famose del mondo. [Browse]

Notes

• Map of the island of Karpathos set in a page of text; relief shown pictorially.
• 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. 113.
• 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.

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

Zacharakis, C.G. Catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1786

This map appears in the atlas under the title

• Descrittione dell' isola di Scarpanto

OCLC

1340480063

International Standard Recording Code

• HM 2010-37

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