Tabula Asiae XII

Description:

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia universalis, 1540 ed., rev. & ed. by Sebastian Münster. Latin text and page no. on verso: Asiae tabula XII ... 28. Includes illustration of elephant. Sri Lanka is labelled "Taprobana" on map, a name which was given to Sumatra on maps in later editions of the Geographia. cf. D.E. Parry, The cartography of the East Indian Islands, p. 63.

Resource Link:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/5409847

Identifier:

ark:/88435/0g354h58v

Language:

lat

Creator:

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552

Publisher:

[Basiliae : Apud Henricum Petrum, 1540]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

Sri Lanka—Maps—Early works to 1800 and Maps—Sri Lanka—1540

Spatial Coverage:

Sri Lanka

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF