Tavola della oriental dell'Asia, che comprende l'estreme terre, & regni di quella.

Object summary

Title: Tavola della oriental dell'Asia, che comprende l'estreme terre, & regni di quella.
Object ID: AF-DI-0676
Date made: 1575
Place made: Switzerland, Basel-Stadt, Basel
Maker: Münster, Sebastian
Object type: Woodcut
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: Yes
Exhibitions: Liquid Archive; Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science

Description

Uncolored woodcut map of Asia, with decorative whale and sea monster over the Indian Ocean. Features Madagascar, part of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, the Caspian Sea, India (with Goa), Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, China (Cathay), and Russia.

From Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia Universalis (Basel, 1575)