Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina

Containers:

Folder 3

Scope and content:

"The Promised Land," from Atlas Major. A map of the Holy Land, viewed from atop Mt. Pisgah. The Exodus and the Wandering of the Children of Israel are depicted in the Sinai. Moses and Aaron flank the decorative cartouche, Jonah and the whale are shown in the sea, and the Pharaoh's forces are seen drowning in the Red Sea. The Mare Mortuum or Dead Sea is shown in a distorted shape with Sodom and Gommora burning within it.

Decorative cartouches, compass roses, ship, sea monsters.

North oriented toward upper right of sheet.

Guilielmi Blaeu, Amsterdam - maker

Joducus Hondius - engraver

Bar scale on map given as Horae itinens 24 Stadiorum 1,000 pasfuum

in color

51 cm x 61 cm;

text on verso: Palestina, 'tland Van Beloften. (Palestine, the Promised Land)

Subject/Index Terms: Israel--Palestine--Maps.

Language:

Latin

Acquisition information:

Gift of Charles H. Taylor, Boston, MA, May 1, 1931 (Mss.Acc. 1931.23);

Biographical / historical:

Drawn by Jodocus Hondius the younger, who died in 1629, before its publication. Blaeu bought the plate from Hondius' widow in 1629 and replaced the latter's name with his own. Blaeu likely included the map in his own later atlases without changing the year (1629).

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