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Subject:
Ptolemy
From:
Riley Moffat <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:57:23 EDT
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Aloha all:
 
There is an instructor here who is looking for the woodcut map of
India in the 1522 Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography' on
which there is represented a devil burning a woman, which is probably
an allusion to suttee. The map is mentioned on page 65 of Raymond
Lister's 'Old Maps and Globes' (London: Bell and Hyman, 1979).
 
Does anyone out there know if this map has been reprinted anywhere
and how we could see a copy. Obviously trying to arrange an ILL for
an original is out of the question. Any suggestions will be
appreciated.
 
Riley Moffat, Head of Reference
Brigham Young University - Hawaii Library
Laie, Hawaii 96762
(808) 293-3884 voice
(808) 293-3877 fax
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