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)