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A 16th century ‘modern’ map of the Holy Land.

Tabula nova terrae sanctae.
Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Coloured woodcut, printed area 260 x 410mm.
Stock #:  25261

£1,400.00

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Description

A 'new' (rather that Ptolemaic) map of the Holy Land, orientated with north to the left, published in the last woodcut edition of Ptolemy's Geography. It is based on the manuscript map drawn by Pietro Vesconte (fl. 1310-30) for Marino Sanudo's 'Liber Secretorum Fidelibus de Crucis' c.1320, as published by Martin Wäldseemuller in his edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' in 1513. This map was intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new 'Chronica mundi' being written by Wäldseemüller. His death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography', first published in 1522.,

Condition:

A good example.

References:

LAOR: 614.

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