
Tabula IX Asiae (During Mughal Empire Ulugh Beg II Era)

1525


Drawing

Ulugh Beg II 1507–1526
Description
Fries's Ptolemaic map "Tabula IX Asiae" from the same atlas, published in a second edition (Strasbourg: Johann Koberger, 1525); with modern hand colouring
Map of ancient Gedrosian and Drangianan lands in modern day Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes names of places and natural features.
In margins: climatic and latitudinal notes.
Descriptive text within ornamental borders on verso.
Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles.
Text in Latin.
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Ratings & Review
Ismail Mazari
Very good information.
Shah Sharaf Barlas
Hello,
If possible anyone have shijra family tree of Mughal Barlas traib of Attock Pakistan please share with me.
Regards.