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The Bison Trail through the Hercynian Forest: Names, Images, and Identities in Ptolemy’s Tabula Europae IV ad Münster’s Cosmographia

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dc.abstract.enZoological motifs, omnipresent in medieval and early modern cartography, are extremely rare, and thus particularly noteworthy, on Ptolemaic maps. This article argues that three species of quadrupeds depicted on the Tabula Europae IV in Venice editions of Ptolemy, published several times between 1561 and 1599, reveal the performative role of zoological imagery in Renaissance scholarship. Each motif bears a label of alces (elk), urus (aurochs), or bisons (wisent), evoking associations with Caesar’s Gallic War. The designs, in turn, find models in the revised edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1550). The identities of the three animals, however, remained obscure, given the variety of other names, descriptions, appearances, and references to different places in both earlier and contemporary accounts. At the same time, the figures of alces, urus, and bisons set off widely ramified chains of zoological, geographical, philological, and historical associations of Ptolemy and Caesar with Münster and Conrad Gessner, and of ancient Hercynia and Sarmatia with early modern Prussia, Scandinavia, and Muscovy.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorJurkowlaniec, Grażyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T09:58:29Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T09:58:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.volume53
dc.identifier.doi10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.134465
dc.identifier.issn0083-5897
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/121945
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.brepolsonline.net/loi/viator
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationarts studies
dc.relation.ispartofViator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
dc.relation.pages307-344
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.titleThe Bison Trail through the Hercynian Forest: Names, Images, and Identities in Ptolemy’s Tabula Europae IV ad Münster’s Cosmographia
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication