Globe gores | Waldseemüller (attributed) | Waldseemüller (attrib) | Waldseemüller (attrib) | Waldseemüller (attrib) | Waldseemüller (attrib) | “Boulengier” (attributed) | |||
Munich (UB) | Minnesota UL/Hauslab | C.Frodsham Ltd. (Christies) | Kraus (SL Munich) | Offenburg (L) | New York (NYPL) | ||||
Technique | Woodcut | Woodcut | Woodcut | Woodcut | Woodcut | Copper Engraving | |||
Intended diameter | 11.5 cm | 11 cm | 10.9 cm | 11 cm | 11 cm | 11.2 cm | |||
Dimension | 35.0 ´ 19.0 cm | 34.5 ´ 18 cm | 34.4 ´ 18.0 cm | 35 ´ 18 cm | 35 ´ 18.0 cm | 36 ´ 18 cm | |||
Full Sheet Dimension | 38.0 ´ 27.5 cm | 39 cm ´ 24 cm | trimmed gores | 42.3 ´ 29.3 | 38.0 ´ 31.5 cm | 40 ´ 20 cm (Motus:23.4 ´ 18 cm) Astrolabium: 19.6 ´ 20 cm | |||
Provenance | Old Library Collection | Vienna Lib.Liechtenstein | Private Coll. Germany | Wernigerode Castle Lib. | Offenburg City Library | C.H. Kalbfleisch from Tross in Paris in 1882 | |||
Perspective Communis Peckh | 1883 | 2005 | Ptolomy Atlas 1486 | Edition Aristotle (1541) | Loose engraving among 3 engravings. CI. Lyons | ||||
Number of Words | 55 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 95 or 42% more | |||
Location of the words | identical with “Boulengier” | identical with “Boulengier” | Identical with “Boulengier” | identical with “Boulengier” | identical with “Boulengier” | Identical with “Walseemüller” but 40% more | |||
Identification Watermark | Picard VII-103 | Picard XVI-371 | Picard XVI-371 | No watermark | No watermark | No watermark | |||
Briquet Nideggan 1527 | Briquet Nideggan 1527 | ||||||||
Date Watermark | Elsass 1518 | Bromberg 1528 | Bromberg 1528 | ||||||
Chain Line | 2.5 - 3 cm | 2.5 cm | 2.5 cm | 3 cm | 2.6 cm | Linen rag laid paper | |||
Spelling and Form of America | America (printed inclined) | America (printed inclined) | America (printed inclined) | America (printed inclined) | America (printed inclined) | AMERICA NOVITER REPERTA & NOVA (horiz) | |||