Westropp — Early Italian Maps of Ireland from 1300-1600. 367 



" Ptolemaeus improved " or " augmented." From these arose awkward 

 fancy maps, Ireland becoming pear- or spindle-shaped, and the names 

 corrupted almost past recognition. The long spindle- shape is found in the 

 maps by Marino Sanudo (supposed early fourteenth century),' Ptolemaeus 

 Uimae, 1482; Euysch "Ptolemy," 1508; Sylvani " Ptolemy," 1511 ; Cracow 

 " Ptolemy," 1512 ; Jacob Zeigler, 1532 ; Pedro de Medina, 1548 to 1566 ; 

 and Sigurd Stephani, 1570. 



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Early Ptolemy Maps. Bologna, " 1472," and Eome, 1490. 



A very curious and unusual map was supervised by Michael Servetus 

 (" Villanovus ") in a " Ptolemy," edited 1525, and published ten years later at 

 Lyons. This atlas, it is believed, aided not a little the heresy of its 

 unfortunate editor to secure his cruel doom. It is full of unnecessary offence — 

 e.g. " Germania producit — Hungaria, boves ; Bavaria, sues ; Svecia, meretrices ; 

 Boemia, hereticos ; Vestfalia, falaces ; tota denique Germania et totus 

 Septentrio, gulones et portatoi'es."^ Ireland, though shown, is fortunately 



' " Facsimile Atlas," p. 51. 



^ " Facsimile Atlas," p. 23. The excuse was a passageon the sterility and worthlessness of the 

 Holy Land, which hud only been copied from other maps (1522 ami 1535), wliere it had caused ng 

 scandf^l. 



