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One of the earliest printed maps of Scilam or Ceylon / Sri Lanka. Published by Benedetto Bordone in Venice in his book of Islands or Isolario.
On verso there are two maps on one page. The first at the top is of Zanzibar and Maidegascar (Madagascar). The second of Maniole, Bazacata, and Isole di Satyri, as well as Imangla and Inebila is described by Thomas Suarez in Early Mapping of Southeast Asia about the male and female islands:
"The final map of Southeast Asia covers the familiar Ptolemaic islands of Maniole, Bazacata, and Isole di Satyri, as well as Imangla and Inebila, curious islands new to the repertoire of Southeast Asian lands found on printed maps. Bordone, repeating popular lore, explains in the Isolario that the island of imangla is inhabited exclusively by women, while inebila in an island on which only men live. If a women of imangla gives birth to a girl, they keep the child, but if a boy is born, he is sent to inebila at the age of three."
On the verso is a map of Scilam, or Sri Lanka.
These maps were published in Venice by Benedetto Bordone in his book of Islands or Isolario.
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