Tabula VIII Asiae
Item Information
- Title:
- Tabula VIII Asiae
- Title (alt.):
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Scythia extra imaum montem
- Creator:
- Ptolemy, 2nd cent
- Date:
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1525
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Tajikistan--Maps--Early works to 1800
Kyrgyzstan--Maps--Early works to 1800
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (region)
- Extent:
- 1 map ; 28 x 33 cm.
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9g54xj590
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] :
Iohannes Grieningerus
- Scale:
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Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000]
- Language:
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Latin
- Notes:
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Map of ancient Scythian lands in Central Asia, to the east of the Pamir Mountain range.
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:
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06_01_007993
- Call #:
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G1005 .P7 1525
- Barcode:
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30000003787850
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