Some Ptolemaic maps
"Tabula Asiae VIII (Central Asia)" complete with monsters, by
Munster,
printed in Basle in 1545
Source:
http://www.raremaps.com/cgi-bin/map-builder.cgi?Asia+India+2615
(downloaded Oct. 1999)
*"Tabula Asiae VIII (Central Asia),"
from 'Geographiae Universae Tum Veteris Tum Novae Absolutissium' by
Giovanni
Magini, 1620*
Tabula Asiae IX, a very early woodcut
map published in Rome, c.1478-90: *northwest*;
*northeast*; *southwest*;
*southeast*
"Tabula
Asiae IX (Afghanistan/Pakistan)," a map
from Munster's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', 1540
"Tabula Asiae IX" (Afghanistan/Pakistan), from Mercator's
Ptolemaic 'Geographia'
atlas, 1584; with modern hand coloring; another, later version of the
same
map, from the 1600's: *Tabula Asiae IX*: *northwest*;
*northeast*; *southwest*;
*southeast*
Tabula Asiae X, an extremely early
woodcut version by Nicolaus Germanus, printed in Ulm, 1482, with
original hand coloring: *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*;
*southeast*
Tabula Asiae X (India Intra Gangem),
from "Claudius Ptolemaeus Geographicae..."
by Gruninger, for J.
Koberger, Strasbourg, 1525, with modern hand coloring: *northwest*; *northeast*;
*southwest*; *southeast*; *North
India*; *the Persian Gulf coast*; *the top half of the accompanying text page*;
*the bottom half*
"Tabula Asiae XI" (Bengal and Southeast Asia), from Giacomo
Gastaldi,
'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino' (Venice, Pedrezano, 1548)
*A small and jumbled Ptolemaic map of
India, 1500's*
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