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Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (MS. Vat. Lat. 3811, fol. IV-3R)

This map, 16.5 by 23 inches, now in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, was drawn in 1474 by Donnus Nicholaus Germanus, a German Benedictine monk working in Florence. Nicholaus worked from coordinates in Ptolemy’s Geography, but he also added information (about Scandanavia, for instance) not available in Ptolemy’s day.