16th-18th Century Maps with Ceylon

Digital scans of 16th-19th Century Maps with Ceylon in the Collection of
Mr Percival Upajiva Ratnatunga (1911-2003), Survey General of Ceylon 1967-68.
The original Maps were purchased by him in Post World War II, London

World Maps

0150 CE Ptolemy Universal Map
1893 Maps of Ancient Geography
1785 World Map with discoveries by Capt. Cook

Maps of Asia

1631 Jodocus Hondius Map of Asia
1772 Guillaume Delisle Map of Asia
1779 Bowen Map of Asia

Maps of South and South East Asia

1587 Ortelius Map of South and SE Asia
1654 Sanson Map India and Southeast Asia
1676 Basset and Chiswell Map of East India
1700 Mortier Map of South Asia, Maldives, Ceylan, India and Andermons
1720 Herman Moll Map of India and Southeast Asia
1778 J. Cooke Map of East Indies

Maps of Indian Subcontinent

1683 Vignola Map of India, Ceylon, and the Maldives
1690 Coronelli Map of The India and Island Of Ceilan
1785 Zatta Map of India, Ceylon, and the Maldives
1816 Southern Division Map of Hindoostan

Maps of Ceylon

1606 Jodocus Hondius Map of Ceylon
1650 Jansson's Map of Zeilan
1740 Tirion Map of the Island of Ceilon

Click on the word Map to see that Map with some details of it obtained online.

The Borders of some of these maps were very large, and I observed that the sizes given online for the same map varied significantly because of this. The images were cropped to have one inch borders all round the printed region and this size is given which is therefore 2 inches more in both dimensions than the Map.

The Maps were scaned at 600 dpi at the Sri Lanka National Archive in Colombo using their overhead A0 flatbed scanner on 2018 November . The total 14GB of .tif files were obtained on 3 DVDs, reduced to 520MB of .jpg images at High quality(80%) at same resolution and finally reduced to 16MB of .jpg images at Medium quality(50%) and 100 dpi resolution to illustrate for these web-pages. The original scans are available at Sri Lanka National Archives for non commercial Research and Educational use.

I thank the Director of National Archives Dr Nadeera Rupesinghe and Ms H. M. Deepanee who setup the scanning and documentation to archive the maps as a digital collection in the Department of National Archives.