Before revision: Renaissance revival Ptolemy's text was rediscovered in the west at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and the term "chorography" was revived by humanist scholars.See An early instance is a small-scale map of Britain in an early fifteenth-century manuscript, which is labelled a tabula chorographica.British Library Harleian MS 1808, fol.
After revision: Renaissance revival Ptolemy's text was rediscovered in the west at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and the term "chorography" was revived by humanist scholars.See An early instance is a small-scale map of Britain in an early fifteenth-century manuscript, which is labelled a tabula chorographica.British Library Harley MS 1808, fol.