Hartmann Schedel: [Constantinople]
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Cartographer:
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Hartmann Schedel
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Title:
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[Constantinople]
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Date:
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1493
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Published:
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Nuremberg
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Width:
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10 inches / 26 cm
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Height:
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15 inches / 39 cm
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Map ref:
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TKY836
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Description:
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| A fine example of Schedel's incunable woodcut view of Istanbul (Constantinople) from the Nuremburg Chronicle, one of the single most influential printed works of the 15th century. The city is depicted as it looked before it fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. [TKY836] |