Duodecima Asiae tabula
The 12th and Last Asian Map (Duodecima et Ultima Asiae Tabula) from Jacopo Pencio's 1511 edition of Ptolemy's Geography. It depicts Taprobane, a greatly swollen form of the island of Sri Lanka. Zoom into this map at maps.bpl.org. Dimension: 33 x 30 cm. Scale: c. 1:7,000,000.P7 1511
- Date
- 1511
- Place
- Sri Lanka
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 2,000 × 1,498 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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