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File:Fool's Cap Map of the World.jpg

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Summary

Latin: O caput elleboro dignum


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Artist
Epichtonius Cosmopolites (pseudonym)
Title
Latin:
O caput elleboro dignum
title QS:P1476,la:"O caput elleboro dignum"
label QS:Lla,"O caput elleboro dignum"
label QS:Lit,"O caput elleboro dignum (Il mondo nella testa di un folle)"
label QS:Lfr,"O caput elleboro dignum (Monde dans une tête de fou)"
Description
English: Fool’s Cap Map of the World, “one of the biggest mysteries in the history of western cartography”. (see source)
Italiano: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (Mappa del mondo «Cappello del Matto»), «uno dei più grandi misteri della storia della cartografia occidentale». (vedi fonte, in inglese)
Русский: "Карта Мира помещенная в голову Дурака" ок. 1590 г. (Национальная библиотека Франции)
Українська: Карта світу, обрамлена одягом блазня, «одна з найбільших таємниць в історії західної картографії» (див. джерело).
Date between circa 1580 and circa 1590
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1580-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Dimensions height: 36 cm (14.1 in); width: 48 cm (18.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,48U174728
institution QS:P195,Q193563
Current location
Collection d'Anville, Cartes et plans, CPL GE DD-2987 (64 RES)
Accession number
00064 Res
References https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7710391q
Source/Photographer image: Coin des cartes anciennes; info: Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps.
Other versions Мапа світу, облямована одягом блазня, 1590 р.jpg, O caput elleboro dignum (Monde dans une tête de fou) - btv1b7710391q.jpg

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