An incunable map of Turkey from a landmark edition of Ptolemy by Francesco Berlinghieri, titled: Tabula Prima de Asia. One of the earliest available maps of Turkey, published in the third edition of Ptolemy’s Geography to have printed maps, which was the first to be printed in the vernacular and the first with ‘modern’ maps’. Francesco Berlinghieri (1440-1501), an Italian scholar and humanist, started work on a revision of Ptolemy in 1464, updating the Ptolemaic maps, supplementing them with mod

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