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    Laurent Fries
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    Ptolemy, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer
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    English: Ptolemy's 12th Asian Map (Tabula XII Asiae) by Laurent Fries from Michel Servet's 1535 reprint of his 1522 maps for Ptolemy's Geography (Cosmographia), depicting Taprobane (Taprobana Insula), a greatly swollen form of the island of Sri Lanka.
    Date 1535
    date QS:P571,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    Medium ink and color on parchment
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