India Tercera Nuova Tavola

Description

hand-coloured copper engraving.

Important map after Gastaldi from “La Geographia: Descrittione dell’ Asia”, 3rd vol., p. 122;
published by M. Sessa in Venezia/Italy, naming several depicted Philippine Islands without
Luzon, as still unknown at that time: Candingan = Sarangani; Caylo = Panaon; Cubu = Cebu;
Hohol = Bohol (?); Mendana = Mindanao; Negros; Polaguan = Palawan. Sumatra is ‘Camatra’;
“Java is ‘Java Mazor’; Borneo is ‘Java Menor’.”
While Ruscelli’s early edition is an Italian translation from the Greek of Ptolemy’s Geographia,
this edition is revised, expanded and edited by Giuseppe Rosaccio, including newly engraved
copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti after Gastaldi, issued in Venice several times between
1561 and ca. 1600. Claudius Ptolemaeus (90-168 CE), was a Greco-Roman geographer, mathematician,
astronomer, astrologer and poet living in Alexandria/Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and
theories about the world’s geography into one seminal work “Geography”.