"Anglie Triquetra Descriptio", Solinus, Caius Julius
Subject: Britain
Period: 1538 (published)
Publication: C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor...
Color: Black & White
Size:
4.4 x 5.9 inches
11.2 x 15 cm
This scarce woodcut map by Sebastian Munster was published in Solinus' Polyhistor. It depicts a Ptolemaic view of Britain with Latin place names and exaggerated rivers. On a sheet of Latin text measuring 7.9 x 12.4".
Solinus was a Roman grammarian from the 3rd century who borrowed largely from Pliny's Natural History, reinterpreting it from a geographical perspective.
References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #285-10.
Condition: A
A nice impression on a bright sheet with marginal foxing and a light dampstain at bottom right, not affecting the image.
