Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiquissimorum cultor. familiis a mose recensitis : ad sacrorum libror. explicandor : commoditatem Antuuerpiae in Philippi regis Catholici gratia describebat 1571 [map].

Author
Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • Latin
  • Hebrew
Published/​Created
[Antwerp : Christopher Plantin, 1572]
Description
  • Scale indeterminable. (W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--S 90°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 2 hemispheres, each 26 cm. in diameter, on sheet 32 x 53 cm.

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Subject(s)
Publisher
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Map of the world showing how the descendants of Noah repopulated the Earth following the Great Flood. Text includes panels in Latin and Hebrew reproducing the Table of Nations which lists the descendants of Noah starting with his three sons, Japheth, Ham and Shem and the countries that they and their descendants founded.
  • On verso: Orbis tabula. Ben. Aria Montano, auctore.
  • From: Biblia sacra, Hebraicae, Chaldaice, Graece et Latine... Antuerpiae : Christoph. Plantinus, [1569-1572]. Ed. by Benito Arias Montano.
Language note
Text in Latin and Hebrew.
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy is gift of Holly and Henry Wendt, Princeton Class of 1955.
References
  • Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 125 (State 1)
  • Wendt, H. Envisioning the world 17
Other title(s)
  • Sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiqussimorum cultor familiis a mose recensitis ad sacrorum libror explicandor commoditatem Antvverpiae in Philippi regis Catholici gratiam describebat 1571
  • Bible. Polyglot. 1569.
OCLC
846794920
International Standard Recording Code
  • HM 2013-40
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