Tabula XI Asiae


Tabula XI Asiae

Item Information

Title:
Tabula XI Asiae
Title (alt.):
India extra Gangem
Creator:
Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Date:
1525
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
Subjects:
India--Maps--Early works to 1800
Bangladesh--Maps--Early works to 1800
Thailand--Maps--Early works to 1800
Burma--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
India
Bangladesh
Thailand
Myanmar
Extent:
1 map ; 27 x 29 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:12,500,000]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Map of land east of the Ganges. The map shows the region of southeast Asia with the Ganges River in the west, the "Sinae" (China) in the east, and southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China Sea.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margins: latitudinal notes.
Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso.
Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles.
Text in Latin.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/claudiiptolemaei00ptol
Identifier:
06_01_007996
Call #:
G1005 .P7 1525
Barcode:
30000003787861