Tabula IX Asiae

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Tabula IX Asiae

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Title:
Tabula IX Asiae
Title (alt.):
Asiae tabula nona
Creator:
Ptolemy, 2nd cent
Date:
1525
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
Iran--Maps--Early works to 1800
Afghanistan--Maps--Early works to 1800
Pakistan--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Extent:
1 map ; 28 x 25 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:9,000,000]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Map of ancient Gedrosian and Drangianan lands in modern day Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margins: climatic and 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_007994
Call #:
G1005 .P7 1525
Barcode:
30000003787853