Quarta Asie Tabula Continet Cyprum & Syrium & Iudea & Vtraq. Arabia petream & deserta ac Mesopotamia & Babilonia. Double-page, hand-colored woodcut map.

From: Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia. Edited by Nicolaus Germanus Donis. Ulm, Leonardus Holle, 1482. Ptolemy’s remarkable early map of modern-day Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The Holy Land is labeled “Palestina Judea”, and is shown divided into the provinces of Roman times: “Galilea”, “Samaria”, and “Judea”. Numerous cities are shown, including Tiberias, Joppa, Ascalon, and Jerusalem. “The 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia was the first edition printed north of the Alps and the first to appear in color which was applied by the publisher. The Ulm edition of the Geographia was one of the most important cartographic texts of the early Renaissance and the first edition of the work to be printed outside Italy. The text for this edition was a manuscript translated into Latin by Jacobus Angeli and edited by Nicolaus Germanus that had been brought to Ulm from Rome in 1468.” (BLR).