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Antique World Map 1540 — Münster, Typvs Orbis a Ptol. Descriptus

Name: Antique World Map 1540 — Münster, Typvs Orbis a Ptol. Descriptus
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: ICGCRM240539
Price: 14.9 USD
Availability: InStock

CODE: ICGCRM240539

Antique world map of 1540 by Sebastian Münster, the world as Ptolemy described it, restored archival scan

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Description

An old world map of the world Ptolemy described

Typvs orbis a Ptol. descriptus — the world as Ptolemy described it — is a single sheet from Sebastian Münster's Geographia universalis, printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1540. The sheet measures 31 × 40 cm, and on its back runs a Latin text that begins Descriptio orbis generalis, ut a Ptolemeo situs…. This impression carries no coloring, and the record names neither a coloring nor a printing technique, so neither do we.

Your file

Original	Sebastian Münster, printed by Heinrich Petri, Basel, 1540
Sheet	31 × 40 cm, from Geographia universalis
Print size at 300 dpi	the map prints to 34 cm (13 in), the full sheet with margins to 39 cm (15 in)
You download	six ZIP archives: full sheet, trimmed, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and ISO A
Inside each one	one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF, a READ ME

How to print

Print at 300 dpi at the size above and do not let the shop scale the file up.
Pick the archive whose proportions match your frame, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Where to print it: print shops near you and checked prices at online labs.

Source and rights

Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, Cartoteca Digital, registry number RM.240539, marked Public Domain Mark 1.0. The archive is named in the passport inside every download. Catalogue record: Cartoteca Digital ICGC →

Every map is a scan of a real sheet held in a named archive — library, shelfmark and year, all stated. Nothing generated, nothing redrawn.