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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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On a map called *Tabula Superioris Indiæ et Tartariæ Majoris* from Ptole-
mæus Argentorati 1522, we find at least the name of Tebet north of India, as a
survival from Fra Mauro's map. Baron A. E. Nordenskiöld also says that this
map is almost exclusively founded on Marco Polo traditions.¹ But Tibet soon
disappears again.
Such is also the case with the map of the world by Nicolas Desliens, of
1541, Pl. XIV.² It seems to be made especially for the use of sailors, for along the
coasts and islands there are numerous names, but in the interior of the continent
only a very few. The Indus and Ganges are there, as usual, but they are less cor-
rect than on Ptolemy's map, being meridional and parallel with each other. Another
shortcoming of the map is that the uninterrupted range all through Asia has been
dissolved into many different and quite isolated mountain groups, each giving rise to
one of the feeders of the two great rivers. Only the source of the main branch of
the Ganges comes from a group called Montes Imani. Further north are, from east
to west, Can de Tartarie, Cathay, Sogdiana and Bactriana.
On Pl. XV we see an example of the bastard maps, where the interior of
Asia is of pure Ptolemæan type, whereas the outlines of the coasts are founded on
later observations. It is an anonymous map of the world, which, upon insufficient
evidence, has been ascribed to Giacomo Gastaldi. C. H. Coote has proved this
to be wrong, and found that it must be based on contemporary Spanish and Venetian
maps, for instance, those used by Diego Homem in 1558, and Diego Gutierrez
in 1562, which are derivations from Diego Ribero of 1529, and others. The map is
in four sheets of the two hemispheres, and dated Venice, Tramizini, 1554.³ It is of
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