Saturday 20 December 2008

Exhibit 00000002a

WORLD MAP FROM PTOLEMY, GEOGRAPHIA. FREIBURG: JOANNES SCHOTT, 1503
Allegedly the first appearance of a pair of spectacles on a map (North-East Wind). Also renowned for being the first instance of Ron Moody playing Fagin disguised as the West Wind, the role he would later reprise in the cinematic musical.
Thanks and Malt Loaf to James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

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