Sanchez, Cypriano
Cypriano Sanchez, also Cipriano, also Sanches (15- 16--) was a Spanish or possibly Portuguese cartographer at the end of the sixteenth century. His name is associated with a 1596 manuscript chart of the Atlantic; Petrus Plancius cited him as a source for his map of Sri Lanka, published by Hondius in 1606; the sole printed map associated with Sanchez. Nothing else concrete is known of him.
Among the First Maps of Sri Lanka from Contemporary Report.
Ins. Ceilan quae incolis Tenarisin dicitur.
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This is an attractive edition of the 1606 Jodocus Hondius map of Ceylon of Sri Lanka. As one of the maps introduced to Mercator's Atlas after Hondoius acquired the work, it is among the first maps to address the island from first-hand contemporary reports. (more details)