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Indochinese Peninsula and major islands of Indonesia
Ignazio Danti1573
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "The island Trapobana or Samotra I think is nothing but Aurea Cres, so called by Ptolemy because filled with gold… Malacca is today one the main cities in the East and the chief and most important that the king of Portugal owns in all India, and it was conquered and taken with great difficulty..." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie
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- Title: Indochinese Peninsula and major islands of Indonesia
- Creator Lifespan: 1536 - 1586
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Alatri
- Creator Birth Place: Perugia
- Date Created: 1573
- cartographer: Egnazio Danti
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w67 x h115 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Penisola indocinese e isole maggiori dell'Indonesia
- Historical information: The panels in the Maps'Room are 53. 30 out of these were realized by the dominican friar from Perugia Egnazio Danti, the court cosmographer from 1553 to 1575; the remaining 23 were realized by the olivetan monk Stefano Bonsignori from 1576 to 1586. The panels show all the world as known at the time.
- Type: oil painting on wood
- Rights: Comune di Firenze, Comune di Firenze
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