- Bib ID:
- 3799585
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000].
- Description:
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- [Basle, Switzerland : Sebastian Munster, 1580?]
- 1 map : col. ; 23.4 x 21.1 cm., on sheet 29.2 x 37.2 cm.
- Notes:
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- This is an exact copy of a Ptolemy map showing Sri Lanka as the mythical island of Taprobana with mountains, rivers and buildings indicating towns. The name Taprobana was sometimes wrongly applied to Sumatra hence the title. Relief shown pictorially.
- In left panel is an illustration of an elephant and a box of text with decorative frame.
- On verso is text in decorative cartouche: Beschieibung dieser Inseln Taprobana so in dem Indianischen Moeregelegen ist. rriij.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232404639
- In German and Latin.
- Subject:
-
- Time Coverage:
- 1580
- Also Titled:
- Translated title: Sumatra a large island and which was named Taprobana by the ancient geographers
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1552
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1580
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