Taffel der Lender darin den Apoftel Paulus geprediget hat

$400

Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting
Date: ca. 1585
Place: Leipzig
Dimensions: 30.5 x 37 cm (12 x 14.5 in)
Condition Rating: VG

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1585 Bünting eastern Mediterranean wood-cut map illustrating the travels of St. Paul.

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An excellent woodcut map featuring Heinrich Bünting’s unusual account of the travels of most of the principal figures of the New Testament.

St. Paul was as an apostle — though not one of the Twelve Apostles) — who taught the gospel of Christ to the 1st-century world. He is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age. In the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD, he founded several churches in Asia Minor and Europe.

St. Paul spent most of his life on missionary journeys, spreading the teachings of Christ and the word of God. This map does a fine job bringing this biblical history to life, in a comprehensive fashion. It covers the region traversed by St. Paul from Jerusalem to Rome, extending from Rome and southern Italy eastwards to show Turkey, Armenia, Cyprus and the Holy Land. Greece is also shown, as are the southern shores of the Black Sea.

Major towns and cities are named while sea monsters populate the Mediterranean Sea.

Cartographer(s):

Heinrich Bünting

Henrich Bünting was a Protestant theologian and teacher from Hannover who is most renowned for his influential work on Biblical geography. His Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, first published in 1581, became very popular due to its comprehensive summary of Biblical geography through travel narratives and commentary. The book contained Bünting’s own unique woodcut maps, including imaginative representations of the continents as a Clover Leaf, Europe personified as a crowned woman, and Asia depicted as the winged horse Pegasus.

With over sixty editions published between 1581 and 1757, Heinrich Bünting’s Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae remains a significant contribution to the history of Biblical geography.

Condition Description

Worn at the edges, slightly browned.

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