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Subject(s)

• Emblems [Browse]
• Calicut (India)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Bird's-eye views—India—Calicut—1642 [Browse]
• Maps—India—Calicut—1642 [Browse]

Notes

• View of Calicut; relief shown pictorially.
• Includes emblem (Arion riding a sea monster) in foreground and mottoes in Latin and German above and below map.
• In upper right-hand margin: H6.
• From: Sciographia cosmica, dasz ist, Newes emblematisches Buchleï, darinen in acht Centurijs die vornembstë Stätt Vestung, Schlösser &c der gantzen Welt, gleichsamb adumbrirt ... / durch Danielem Meisnerum ... Nürnberg : Bey Paulo Fürsten, 1642.

Title in upper margin

• Musica vel fera maris monstra mitigat

OCLC

713201135

International Standard Recording Code

• HM 2011-30

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