[Daniel's dream map] [map].

Author
Lufft, Hans, 1495-1584 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
German
Published/​Created
[Wittenberg : H. Lufft, 1572]
Description
  • Scale indeterminable. (W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--S 90°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 12 x 15 cm., on sheet 35 x 24 cm.

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Notes
  • Allegorical map of Europe, Africa and Asia with four windheads. Relief shown pictorially.
  • Title from: Shirley, p. 71. Also known as the Wittenberg world map.
  • Used in editions of Luther's Wittenberg Bible.
  • Map set in a page of text headed "Daniel, [p.] 113."
Source acquisition
Historic Maps copy is gift of Holly and Henry Wendt, Princeton Class of 1955.
References
  • Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 65 (A)
  • Wendt, H. Envisioning the world 18
Other title(s)
Wittenberg world map
OCLC
846794894
International Standard Recording Code
  • HM 2013-40
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