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Fig. 11

From: The origins of the Selden map of China: scientific analysis of the painting materials and techniques using a holistic approach

Fig. 11

Details from the Selden map (before 2011 conservation) showing multiple attempts at drawing the trade routes that were eventually covered by land near a southern Vietnam and Cambodia (to assist the reader the various routes are marked in red capital letters and the repeated attempts are marked in numbers, e.g. ‘A1’, ‘A2’ and ‘A3’ are the 3 versions of the same route), note that the cartographer only annotated the final attempt with its compass directions); b Bali on Java (a short segment of the trade route on the edge of the coast with the compass bearing ‘乙辰’ marked on the land was replicated off the coast above). The trunk route that correspond to those found on the back of the map is marked ‘T’. © The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Selden Supra 105

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