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Title from verso.
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Document identity
localId
7h14b1278
label
Undecima Asie tabula continet India ext. Gange & Sinas
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7h14b1278
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Undecima Asie tabula continet India ext. Gange & Sinas
description
Title from verso.
date
["[1482]"]
year
1482
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_000864
creators
Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Hol, Lienhart
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education 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
subjectsGeographic
Asia
Bangladesh
India
Myanmar
Thailand
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
India
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Ulm
publisher
Lienhart Hol
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
20
schema:longitude
77
extent
1 map : hand col ; 36 x 32 cm.
notes
Title from verso.
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 by brown coloring.
Engraved on wood with place names in moveable type.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margin: notes on latitude.
Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso.
Appears in the author's Geographia. Ulm : Lienhart Hol, 16 July 1482.
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://www.archive.org/details/cosmographia00ptol
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no
dcId
7h14b1278
type
map
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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