Saturday, 21 March 2015

Another Early Close-up Map of Singapore: Manuel Godinho de Erédia, 1615

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Name: Folio 26,  Historia de Servicos com Martiro de Luis Monteiro Coutinho   Year: 1615 Map maker: Manuel Godinho de Erédia Manuscript ...
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Sunday, 8 March 2015

The Earliest Close-up Map of Singapore: de Bry, 1606

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Name: Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Holander... (from Achter Theil der Orientalischen Indien , Frankfurt am Main)  Year: 1606 Pub...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

The Oldest Map in the National Library Collection

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Name: Undecima Asiae Tabula (from Geographia ) Year: 1478 Map maker: Arnold Buckinck Type: Copper Engraving Picture Source: National...
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Sunday, 8 February 2015

When did Singapore become an island? Part III

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To the best of my knowledge, 1613*. In Manuel Godinho de Erédia's  Declaracam de Malaca e da India Meridional com Cathay [1] , ther...
Saturday, 7 February 2015

When did Singapore become an island? Part II

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In a previous entry , we talked about an 'island' feature at the southern end of the Malay peninsula that appeared in many maps da...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

The David Parry Southeast Asian Map Collection

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The David Parry SE Asian Map Collection forms the main body of the current map exhibition in National Library on the early maps of SE Asi...
Friday, 23 January 2015

When did Singapore become an island? Part I

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On the earliest printed maps that feature Singapore, there is no indication that cartographers realized that it is an island. In fact, S...