Claudius Ptolemaeus
Greek, Alexandria (?) 100 CE?–?170 Alexandria (?)
Claudius Ptolemaeus, the Greek scholar of Alexandria, is represented in this archive by a single woodcut sheet from a 1525 edition of his geographical writings. The collection preserves one example of the woodcut technique, dated by the Met to that same year, though impressions up to 1525 may reflect later printings of the blocks. Ptolemy's geographical treatises, transmitted through Renaissance editions, form the subject of this holding, linking his Alexandrian learning to the print culture of the early sixteenth century.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
