Holy Land by Heinrich Bünting. 1582
Shows the Wanderings of the Jews from Ramses in Egypt through Sinai to Canaan. The map depicts the Nile Delta, Stony Arabia, and the Southern part of Palestine, i.e. Judea.
This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.
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.
Reysen der Kinder Israel aus Egypten.
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Category: Antique maps > Africa
Old, antique of the Holy Land, by Heinrich Bünting.
Title: Reysen der Kinder Israel aus Egypten.
Date of the first edition: 1582.
Date of this map: 1582.
Woodcut, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 260 x 365mm (10.24 x 14.37 inches).
Verso: German text.
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
References: Laor, p. 20 #142
From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.
Shows the Wanderings of the Jews from Ramses in Egypt through Sinai to Canaan. The map depicts the Nile Delta, Stony Arabia, and the Southern part of Palestine, i.e. Judea.
This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.
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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