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Where are the Cartographic Manuscripts stored at the Vatican?

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   Vatican Library
   Secret Archives

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Answer: The Cartographic Manuscripts are stored in the Vatican Library. The illustrations below were taken from the third recension of Ptomely's 'Geographia' edited about 1480 by the cartographer, Niccolo Germanico, and preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The manuscript work is an outstanding piece of art that shows the new geographical and cartographical trends in fifteenth-century Southern Europe.

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CARTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPTS OF THE VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY POSTCARDS


Map of the World
Map of Italy
Map of Spain
P94-P96 (1991)