Abstract
This article examines textual and visual evidence to show that in the second half of the fifteenth century manuscript Ptolemaic wall maps were produced, though no examples of the type survive today. These maps were a significant but heretofore unknown part of the cartographic reception of Ptolemy’s Geography. The Ptolemaic world map in the 1482 Venice edition of Pomponius Mela’s Cosmographia, and through it, the world map in Schedel’s Liber chronicarum, apparently derives from this tradition, and it is suggested that Henricus Martellus’s wall map now at Yale, and through it, Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map, were inspired by maps of this type.
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