Africa
1597. This map (17cm x 12.5cm) is attributed Petrus Keschedt. It is from the first and scarce pirated edition of small or miniature maps (i.e. unauthorised copying), when a privilege offered some form of copyright, as we know it today. Keschedt's map is a forgery of Giovanni Magini's map that was used between 1597 and 1621 by Petrus Keschedt for his successful edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. One way of differentiating the Keschedt map from the Magini map is the detail about the Nile River and the spacing of the letters about the river. Keschedt acknowledged Magini in the title of the book but, apparently, published it without Magini's permission or knowledge. In the Keschedt forgery, 'Aegyptus' is entirely to the left of the lower Nile river Keschedt's book was the last in the series of printed publications of the Geographia, the first in 1477 and the last in 1617. Keschedt published two editions of his book in 1597 (this map with 'gione' being the first word in the last line of the verso text), the second together with Johannes Janssonius I (AKA Jan Janz). The map was also used for an edition of Matthias Quad's Enchiridion Cosmographicum that was published in 1599. Another edition of Keschedt's book was published in 1608, still with Keschedt's imprint; Janz acquired the plates and published his own edition of the Geographia in 1617. References: Betz (The Mapping of Africa) #35, pages 172-173 The map has acidic tape around the border of the paper, not affecting the plate area, written note on the back in pen. Item #31993
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