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Description
Benedict Arias Montanus. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Shows topography, drainage, islands off coasts. Features 2 hemispheres and illustrations of ships, sea monsters, and angels. Includes 4 keys and indexes, in Latin and Hebrew: reproducing the Table of Nations, lists the descendants of Noah starting with his three sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem and the countries that they and their descendants founded; how the descendants of Noah repopulated the Earth following the Great Flood. Descriptive text in top left corner of map: Benedict Arias Montanus sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiquissimorum cultop familiis a Mose pecensitis ad sacrorum libror explicandor commoditatem Antuuerpiae in Philippi regis catholici gratia describebat. Lower left margin: "tom: VI. pag. 553." Text in Latin and Hebrew. Appears in Plantin's Polyglot Bible, Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine, 1572.
Publisher
[Plantin],
Collection
The Leonard and Juliet Rothman Holy Lands Map Collection
Subject(s)
(Biblical figure), Noah, Christianity, Judaism, World in the Bible, and World maps
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Stanford
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Images from the Leonard and Juliet Rothman Holy Lands Map Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu
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