[DCRM-L] Maps in Ptolemy, Geographia, 1478 and 1490 (ISTC ip001086000)

[Noble, Richard]

"Never mind ..." (different comic trope)

They don't line up exactly right--close, but. It still seems insane--just
the sort of thing one finds at the earliest stages of a new technology.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu>
wrote:

> I am altogether puzzled by the fact that the 27 engraved maps that *look* as
> if they're each printed on one side of a full sheet and bound sequentially
> (and alas, tightly, with some parts of the world lost in the gutter) have
> been described in every reference I find as unsigned folio gatherings i-o^8
> p^6 -- in BM XVth, BSB-Ink and Bod-inc:
>
> Bod-inc (http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/P-530): A–C8 D E6 a10
> b–g8 h4 [i–o8 p6] 2a b8 c6
>
> I cannot work out how one could print the maps (except those in in the
> center sheets) as half maps (half of one map on one half of the sheet, and
> half of a different map on the other half of the sheet) and expect the
> halves to line up perfectly in the bound book, as they do in our copy.
>
> If anyone can make me smack my forehead and cry "Doh!", I'd be grateful.
> Otherwise I have one of those cranky corrective notes to write in a revised
> record ...
>
> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
> BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
> <(401)%20863-1187>
> <Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>
>
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