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Nineteen woodblock-printed leaves about astronomy and geography with diagrams, from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz, on 20th January 1488, the son of Andreas Münster. In 1505, he joined the Franciscan Order, and four years later was sent to the monastery of St. Katherina in Rufach. There, he studied under Konrad Pelikan, who was to have a profound influence on the young man over the next five years. Pelikan was a teacher of Hebrew, Greek, mathematics and cosmography.
In 1529, Münster settled in Basle, where he was to spend the rest of his life. In 1540, Münster's edition of Ptolemy was published, illustrated with 48 woodcut maps. This edition supplemented the standard Ptolemaic corpus with a number of new maps, which were of great significance for the mapping of Europe.
Having completed the Geographia, Munster returned to his pet project, the description of Germany. In 1544, he published the first edition of the Cosmographia, a summary both of Munster's own geographical researches and those of his many correspondents. The Cosmographia, with its later expanded editions, was as close as Munster would come to fulfilling the vision of 1528.
The Cosmographia was very much in the illustrative tradition of the Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, bringing together many of the modern maps from the Geographia, additional maps that had come to him in the intervening years, as well as several hundred woodcuts printed set in the text. Again, the Cosmographia was frequently reprinted. For the 1550 edition, additions included a large number of town prospects.
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