Details

Subject(s)

• Arabian Peninsula—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Arabian Peninsula—1540 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia. [Browse]

Summary note

This map summarizes Ptolemaic cartography of the Arabian Peninsula. It was the sixth in a sequence of 12 maps of Asia as described by the 2nd century Egyptian cartographer, Claudius Ptolemy.

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia vniversalis, 1540 ed., rev. & ed. by Sebastian Münster.
• Latin text and page no. on verso: Arabiam Felicem ... 22.

Other title(s)

Tabvla Asiae VI

OCLC

1340130403

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