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Tabula Asiae XII
- Author(s):
- Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
- Publisher:
- [Basiliae : Apud Henricum Petrum, 1540]
- Access:
- Public
- 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.
- Place(s):
- Sri Lanka
- Subject(s):
- Sri Lanka—Maps—Early works to 1800 and Maps—Sri Lanka—1540
- Call number:
- HMC01.644
- Held by:
- Princeton: Historic Map Division, Special Collections, Firestone Library
- Rights Statement:
- No Known Copyright
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