1588-1628, German, Map, Single map edition: Taprobana : Taprobaneder Insel beschreibung so in den Indianischen Meere ist gelegen / [Sebastion Münster] [cartographic material] : Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.

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Physical Description
  • 1 map ; 29 x 20 cm, on sheet 34 x 40 cm.
Published
  • [Basle, Switzerland : H. Petre, 1588-1628]
Language
  • German

Edition details

Title
  • Taprobana [cartographic material] : Taprobaneder Insel beschreibung so in den Indianischen Meere ist gelegen /​ [Sebastion Münster]
Also Titled
  • Taprobaneder Insel beschreibung so in den Indianischen Meere ist gelegen [cartographic material]
  • Cosmographia Universalis
  • Sumatra ein grosse Insel /​ so von den alten Geographen Taprobana genennet worden
Creator
  • Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.
Published
  • [Basle, Switzerland : H. Petre, 1588-1628]
Physical Description
  • 1 map ; 29 x 20 cm, on sheet 34 x 40 cm.
Subjects
Time Period
  • 1588-1628
Map Data
  • Scale [ca. 1:8 328 000] (E 102⁰00' 00/​N 00⁰00' 00)
Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Title from verso.
  • "xxiiii"
  • Shows Sumatra, pat of the Malayan Peninsula and part of Java.
  • At head of map above neat line: Sumatra ein grosse Insel /​ so von den alten Geographen Taprobana genennet worden.
  • Map 24 of the German ed. of Münsters', Cosmographia Universalis published in various eds. between 1588 and 1628.
  • A redrawing of Ptolemy's map. C.f. Imago Mundi, vol. XVI, 1952, pp. 84-97.
  • The sheet on which the map is printed has a woodcut illustration of a man riding an elephant and notes.
  • Text in German with the title in Latin with a parallel fuller title in German.
Language
  • German
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