Totius Graeciae Descriptio
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Totius Graeciae Descriptio refers to an early regional map of Greece drawn by Renaissance humanist Nikolaos Sophianos that became a cartographical bestseller of the late 16th century. The first editions of the map (1540-1545) are believed to be lost. Some references were collected and published by Emile Legrand in 1885 and this data was the basis for recent bibliographical entries. Exeamples of the 1545 edition have been rediscovered and it is now possible to reconstruct the map's history and content thus sheding light on the methodology and practice of early modern antiquarian cartography of Greece. [1]
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- ^ George Tolias, Nikolaos Sophianos's Totius Graeciae Descriptio: The Resources, Diffusion and Function of a Sixteenth-Century Antiquarian Map of Greece, Imago Mundi, 58(2), July 2006 , p.p. 150 - 182
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