Title: Ins. Ceilan quae incolis Tenarisin dicitur
- Not specified
- 1619
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by University of Minnesota)
- Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
- Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622
- Sanchez, Cypriano
Dates
- Issued: 1619
- Coverage: 1619
- Coverage: 1619 to 1619
Publishers
- Jodocus Hondius; Amsterdam
Summary
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:970,000 (E 79°22'00"--E 82°04'00"/N 10°02'00"--N 5°43'00"). Map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with relief shown pictorially. Oritented with north to the left."Ceilan hujus insulae descri ptionem aè Cypriano Sanchez cosmographo Hispano deline ; atam, huic nostro operi inse: rendam, dedit Clarissimus vir Petrus Plancius." From: Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius. Amsterdam : Jodocus Hondius. French text on verso: L'Isle de Zeilan, ov Ceilon (2 pages). Page numbers on verso: 685 and 688. In Latin and French.
33 x 48 centimeters
Scale approximately 1:970,000
Ames Library of South Asia Maps
Subjects
- Sri Lanka Maps Early Works to 1800
- Early Maps
- 2022-creator-sprint
- Sri Lanka
- Maps
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (79.36,82.06,10.03,5.71)
Provider
University of Minnesota
Rights
- Access rights: Public
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Citation
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622, Sanchez, Cypriano. Ins. Ceilan quae incolis Tenarisin dicitur. Jodocus Hondius; Amsterdam. https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll246:391
Format
JPEG
Languages
- fre