Holy Land by Bünting H. 1582
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.
Taffel des Heiligen Landes zu dem Newen Testament dienlich.
Item Number: 22640
Category:
Antique maps > Asia > Holy Land
Map of the Holy Land for the understanding of the New Testament. Shows Palestine on both sides of the Jordan at the time of Jesus, divided into Galilee, Samaria and Judea.
Woodcut
Size: 26.5 x 19.5cm (10.3 x 7.6 inches)
Condition: Short right margin.
Condition Rating: A
References: Laor, 143.
From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.
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.