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Printed editions, held in Map Room of Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers), of the Geography/Cosmography of Ptolemy with manuscript annotations (1478 to 1605 only here). Since my last expansion of this list (see note at bottom) I have tried last year (2009) - with references kindly provided by Prof. Marica Milanesi - to confirm whether the Magini signature on the Strassburg 1525 edition (shelf-mark 262.H.10 exemplar) is his autograph or not; the question remains unresolved, so I offer this listing ‘as is’. The nature of some comments makes it ‘typical’ of the compiler (you have been warned). Feel free to forward to Renaissance Studies, or Ex-libris, etc., discussion lists. After its initial compilation I offered this listing to Dr Zur Shalev - organizer of a London Conference/Symposium on Ptolemy (which I was unable to attend) - to make use of for the eventual expected published proceedings of that conference. But, having checked this morning on his personal web-site’s ‘cv’ - last updated to April 2006 [sic], I can find no mention of a publication. ‘Intellectual’ access to the items is via the website [www.rgs.org - then ‘Our Work’ (top menu) + ‘Collections’ (left menu) or direct to ‘Search our catalogue’ (home page, left menu)]. For ‘physical’ access in the (since June 2004) centralised Collections’ consultation space - the Foyle Reading Room - e-mail any further questions, or book visits, to [email protected] FH, 17.vi.2010 Rome, 1478 (265.G.3): black pen & ink comments in Book 1. Florence, 1482 (265.G.1): black pen & ink titles on closed rectos of new maps of Spain & of France. Ulm, 1482 [maps]/1486 [re-set text] (263.G.19): black pen & ink marginalia in main text; red pen & ink, too, by someone with a ‘Sibylla’ fixation [!]. Ulm, 1486 (265.G.2): front index of [4]p. sepia pen & ink for names, with red pen & ink for numerals, with same red numerals referenced in the ‘Reg. alphabet.’ [please excuse abbr.]; black pen & ink marginalia (especially at beginning & end); pen & ink index at end, too. Rome, 1490 (265.G.4): pen & ink comments (in It & La) - including 1600 (etc.) ownership and “del Ruscelli” [!] statements several times (plus “pigmei” on sig.[C8v]) - in main text & ‘Reg. alphabet.’; also on Europe maps 3, 4, & 6, Africa 1, Asia 1, 4, 5, & 11. Rome, 1508 (265.G.5): pen & ink marginalia (especially in Books 1 & 3 and on mathematical geography). Venice, 1511 (265.G.6): pen & ink at end of Book 8. Venice, 1511 (265.G.7): pen & ink (especially Book 1 and Europe maps 5 & 6 and New World). Strassburg, 1520 (265.G.9): both front & back lining-papers are covered with/formed by MS (black, red, and decorated initials) on vellum torn from unidentified sources; black pen & ink ownership statement, too. Strassburg, 1525 (262.H.6): black & red ink MS (Latin) on inner side of spine binding’s vellum; black pen & ink (in Greek) on free fly-leaf and in Book 1; pencil [!] underlining of versi texts of maps Europe 1 - 10, Africa 1 - 4, & Asia 1 - 12 ; and of new maps 28 (Atlantic), 29 (Brit. Isles), 31 - 34 (France, Germany, Hungary etc., & Norway etc.), 36 (Italy), 37 (Balkans), 40 (Asia Minor), 41 (Holy Land), 43 (Upper India), 48 (Crete), & 49 (World). Strassburg, 1525 (262.H.10): pen & ink on fol.1r (including “Io: Antonij Magini” [!]) with pencil on verso; pen & ink in Book 1, ff.3, 4, 12 [i.e. 6], & 11 and on map Asia 4 (between ‘Libanus mons’ & ‘Antilibanus mons’). Lyon, 1535 (265.G.10): 20th-century pencil on Africa 4 map: “Robertson | Hist. America | Vol: 1, 63” (re Prester John ill.). Vienne, 1541 (265.G.11): pen & ink ownerships (in English) on 1st free fly-leaf (from 17 March 1780 onwards) and on t.p.; pen & ink (Latin) in Book 3, ch.11, p.58; pen & ink (English) on Europe map 6 and on new maps 36 (Italy), 38 (North Africa), & 49 (World). Venice, 1547/48 (265.F.21): pen & ink (Latin?) single line overlaid with paper strip on Book 1, fol.1r (top space). Basel, 1552 (262.H.11): [nichts!]. Basel, 1552 (265.E.10): pen & ink (Italian) ownership inscription (including 23 April 1757) on t.p. plus partial excising of 2 lines of letter-press here and on sig. a (but omissions supplied in pencil by E. Heawood); pencil (Heawood?!) in Book 2, p.6 of “xCrewkerne” and, on p. 60, of parenthesis; pen & ink on maps Europe 1 - 10, Africa 1 - 4, & on Asia 1 of numerals 3 - 12, 13 - 16, & 17 at top centre above borders or at top right corners; pen & ink on new map 31 (‘Hispania’) of “complutima” [?] between Madrid and Alcala [this is ‘Complutica’ on ‘Tav. 2da antica’ in Venice, 1561 (265.F.30)]; pen & ink crossings- through on p.162, col. 1, lines 7 - 9 and on p.172, col. 2, lines 17 - 19. Venice, 1561 (265.F.30): pen & ink (Italian) ownership inscription (“Gioseppe Ariol:” [?]) on title-leaf; and, in Ruscelli’s ‘Espositioni, et introduttioni universali’ section on f.δ2v, completion of 20º and of outer ring of globe hemisphere Venice, 1562 (265.F.29): [niente!]. Venice, 1574 (265.F.27): pen & ink marks (doodles?) in Ruscelli’s 1573 ‘Espositioni, et introduttioni universali’ section on [α4]v + Br. Duisburg, 1578 (265.G.12): [nil!]. Cologne, 1584 (265.G.13): pen & ink amendments on p.43 to co-ordinates for Creusa, to spelling on p.44 of ‘Apollonis’, to catchword at bottom of Asia index on sig.b3v, and to first entry (‘Antha’) at bottom of b4r. Venice, 1598 (265.E.8): in Ptolemaic first part are pencilled incorrect corrections [!] to folio & column numbers, on ‘Indice’ fol.Cr, and to ‘rapta citta’; either pencil or greyish water-colour and/or carmine water-colour covering of certain towns on map ‘Pedemontium Monsferratus et Liguria’ (fol.75/sig.Niii r) - yet text unmarked. Amsterdam/Frankfurt (Main),1605 (265.G.14): all pen & ink MS annotations (possibly, near the beginning, by someone with a ‘Tarsus’ fixation!) are in Latin. Addition at bottom of sig.a2r, col.2 (in ‘Europae Index’), of “Bithynia, L.” and underlining, on a3r, of ‘Drepanum’; addition on [a6r], col.3, of “Tarsus” (ought, of course, be in ‘Asiae index); ‘Tarsus’ underlined on ‘Asiae tabula. I.’ (sig.Qr); ‘Tarsus’ underlined, too, on map ‘Asiae I tab:’ and added at bottom of leaf with underlining of ca 12 names (e.g. ‘Olympus mons’, ‘M[a]eandrus fl:’, & ‘Tectosage[s]’ on western half of same map; further underlining on maps ‘Asiae II tab:’ (ca 3 names on western half), ‘Asiae III tab:’ (ca 4 names), ‘Asiae IIII tab:’ (ca 8 names), ‘Asiae V tab:’ (ca 33 names), ‘Asia VI tab:’ (ca 15 names, plus carmine underlining + pencil gridding of ‘Arabia foelix’), ‘Asiae VII tab:’ (ca 32 names), ‘Asiae VIII tab:’ (ca 7 names), ‘Asiae IX tab:’ (ca 5 names); Book II, ch.9, p.49 (sig.Er) has underlining (Latin text) of ‘Batavodurum’; Book II, ch.11, pp.53 & 55 (Eiii r & [Eiv]r) have underlining plus comments to both Latin & Greek parallel texts; Book V, ch.5 & 6, pp.124-126 (Lii v + Liii r + Liii v) have underlining (Latin text); Book VI, ch.13-18 & 21, pp.161- 167 (Oiii r - [Ovi r]) have underlining to both & Latin & Greek parallel texts. [compiled by Francis Herbert (2004 & 2008), Curator of Maps, RGS (with IBG) until July 2006]
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