Ins. Ceilan quae incolis Tenarisin dicitur

Description:: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:970,000 (E 79°22'00"--E 82°04'00"/N 10°02'00"--N 5°43'00"). Map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with relief shown pictorially. Oritented with north to the left."Ceilan hujus insulae descri ptionem aè Cypriano Sanchez cosmographo Hispano deline ; atam, huic nostro operi inse: rendam, dedit Clarissimus vir Petrus Plancius." From: Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius. Amsterdam : Jodocus Hondius. French text on verso: L'Isle de Zeilan, ov Ceilon (2 pages). Page numbers on verso: 685 and 688. In Latin and French.

33 x 48 centimeters
Resource Link:: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll246:391
Identifier:: UMN_ALMA:9973944504601701
Language:: fre
Creator:: Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622, and Sanchez, Cypriano
Publisher:: Jodocus Hondius; Amsterdam
Provider:: University of Minnesota
Resource Class:: Maps
Resource Type:: Digital maps
Temporal Coverage:: 1619
Date Issued:: 1619
Spatial Coverage:: Sri Lanka
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Access Rights:: Public
Format:: JPEG

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