Early World Maps in Buffalo
Work on the first atlas was started in 1473 and finally published in 1478. There are very few surviving examples of this atlas (One is preserved in the Karpeles Manuscript Library). A crude copy of this atlas was produced and published by some dissident workers in 1477 in order to be efirsti but the original work of 1473 qualifies the 1478 atlas as the true first atlas. Four years later in 1482 at Ulm, the first Atlas to be printed north of the Alps was issued. During the next 65 years world atlases were issued in many various forms. Some of these showed North America containing locations like Tibet and Cathay next to Cape Cod and Florida. Some showed Antarctica in accurate detail 300 years before it was discovered. These will be part of the exhibit. A listing of the great maps that will be on exhibit includes:
1478 Ptolemy Old World, 1482 Ulm World Map, 1493 Schedel, 1507 New World, 1511 Sylvanis Atlas, 1520 Apianus, 1540 V Early MS Map of No Am, 1493 Columbus Letter, 1513 Admiral's Map, 1398 Zeno Map, 1504 map, 1519 Macrobius, 1720 Carolina/California, 1513 Map of India, 1507 The Naming of America, 1540 Munster Atlas/No& So Am, 1556 Ramusio Map, 1543 Salamanca/Mercator, 1545 Florianus/Mercator, 1482 Ptolemy Ulm Asia Map., MS World map 1750.
Exhibit runs to September 30, 2005. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum 453 Porter Avenue Buffalo, New York (Porter Hall) near Kleinhans Music Hall.
Hours of Operation Tuesday-Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. Closed Holidays.
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