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Artist
Laurent Fries
Author
Ptolemy, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer
Description
English: Ptolemy's 12th Asian Map (Tabula XII Asiae) by Laurent Fries from Michel Servet's 1535 reprint of his 1522 maps for Ptolemy's Geography (Cosmographia), depicting Taprobane (Taprobana Insula), a greatly swollen form of the island of Sri Lanka.
Date 1535
date QS:P571,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium ink and color on parchment
Dimensions height: 37.3 cm (14.6 in); width: 50.3 cm (19.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,37.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,50.3U174728
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