Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, by Heinrich Bünting. 1581
Heinrich Bünting (Hannover, 1545-1606)
Heinrich Bünting was a protestant pastor and theologian. He was also a brewer in Hannover, and he was concerned with history and wrote a Braunschweigische Chronica in 1584. His main work was the popular Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, which after the first edition in Magdeburg in 1581 had many editions in German, Latin, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Czech and English.
The book gave an overview of biblical geography based on the travel descriptions of various notable people from the Old and New Testaments. It contained ten woodcut maps, including three figurative maps: the world depicted as a cloverleaf with Jerusalem in the centre, Europe in the shape of a crowned woman, and Asia as the winged horse Pegasus.
Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
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Category: Antique maps > Mediterranean Sea
Old, antique map of the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, by Bünting H.
Title: Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
Date: 1581.
Woodcut, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 290 x 380mm (11.42 x 14.96 inches).
Verso: German text.
Condition: Age-toned.
Condition Rating: A.
From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Magdeburg, 1581- ....
Heinrich Bünting (Hannover, 1545-1606)
Heinrich Bünting was a protestant pastor and theologian. He was also a brewer in Hannover, and he was concerned with history and wrote a Braunschweigische Chronica in 1584. His main work was the popular Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, which after the first edition in Magdeburg in 1581 had many editions in German, Latin, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Czech and English.
The book gave an overview of biblical geography based on the travel descriptions of various notable people from the Old and New Testaments. It contained ten woodcut maps, including three figurative maps: the world depicted as a cloverleaf with Jerusalem in the centre, Europe in the shape of a crowned woman, and Asia as the winged horse Pegasus.
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