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Example of Thomas Glazebrook Rylands' notes on Ptolemy.

Rylands' notes on Ptolemy contain numerous tracings of maps taken from books in his own collection and elsewhere.

In the introduction to The Geography of Ptolemy Eulcidates, Rylands wrote that “The most fitting method of work seemed to be by diagrams” (vi). Mirroring this, his notes contain numerous diagrams, which often incorporate his tracings, some of which…