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Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and central figure at the pinnacle of Dutch cartographic science during the Age of Discovery. He was famously the first to publish a printed collection of maps with the title of atlas. This map depicts the entire continent of Asia. The Red Sea is given the alternative name of Arabian Gulf and the Gulf is given the alternative name of Mar Mesendin, or Sea of Mesendin, now known as Musandam, a governate in Oman., Relief shown pictorially, Descriptive text on verso in Latin, This is a new plate of the 1570 map, copied word for word. In the Arabian Peninsula the name Ara, a city at the mouth of the Red Sea, has been omitted, while Medina Tallnabi becomes Medina, the word Tallnabi being moved to the left to cover a formerlu nameless town south of Jabul., From "Theatrum orbis terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius (Antwerpen : Plantijn, 1579)., This is from the second version of the 1579 printing, Main Heritage Compact General, HC.MAP.01187, Print Map, Item-ID: i11404589, BIB-ID: 1172801 |
