Page from the book "Cosmographia Universale" with woodcut showing a ship sailing by a shore with land animals atop it, and whales in the water; the sun, moon, and an image of a bearded man in a bishoplike hat above (reminiscent of imagery of the Garden of Eden, where the center was usually occupied by a vast light representing God). In the border, angels at the top corners, and human-animal chimaeras, possibly demons, at lower corners. The text, in Italian, begins with a woodblock letter H imitating hand illuminated letters; there is a cherub, whose lower parts have been rubbed away, presumably in an effort to censor his genitals.
Page 1; verso 2.
