Germanus, Nicolaus

Name:

Germanus, Nicolaus (usually called `Donnus Nicolaus’, fl. 1451-1482)

Biographical Details:

; from Germany, OSB; illustrator of maps and illuminator of manuscripts; E. Lynam, `The First Engraved Atlas of the World’ (Jenkintown, Pa., 1941), 7; I. Babicz, `Nicolaus Germanus: Probleme seiner Biographie und sein Platz in der Rezeption der ptolomäischen Geographie’, Wolfenbüttler Forschungen, 7 (1980), 9-42; Firenze e la scoperta dell’America: Umanesimo e geografia nel ’400 Fiorentino, ed. Sebastiano Gentile (Florence, 1992), 208-12.

Categorisation:

Century: unknown century

Works:

• author
  1. tip01083000 Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli, ed. Domitius Calderinus).
  2. tip01084000 Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli).
  3. tip01085000 Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli), et al.

Gender:

Unknown

Author Id:

2268