# Ptolemy: Cosmography [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Urb. lat. 277\), 593 x 435 mm ## Commentary Ptolemy: Cosmography 1472 Manuscript \(Urb. lat. 277\), 593 x 435 mm Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican This manuscript is a copy of Ptolemy's Cosmography. It was commissioned in 1472 for Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Claudius Ptolemy \(c. 100-after 160\) was a Greco-Roman writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. His maps and writings represent the peak achievement of Greek geography. Approximately 52 manuscripts are known, the oldest dates from the 10th century. The illustration shows the map of Ispania, Spain. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()