Quarta Asiae Tabula. Double-page woodcut map in red and black by Bernardus Sylvanus.

(PTOLEMY).

Venice, first edition 1511, (or later)

Unexamined out of frame. Place-name corrected in an early hand.

Laor 607.

Bernardus Sylvanus of Eboli created a unique hybrid of Classical and modern intellectual detail in his maps for the 1511 Ptolemy edition ‘Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae’, printed in Venice and published by Jacobus Pentius de Leucho, to whom this map is also attributed. Sylvanus blended the Classical period list of provinces, towns and other places as recorded by Ptolemy with a modern (16th century) geographical outline of the coasts, rivers, and mountains. Also noteworthy is Sylvanus’s uncommonly early use of two-color printing. While the towns and geographical features appear in black, kingdoms, provinces and seas are identified in red.