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Terra Sancta : a Petro Laicstain perlustrata, et ab eius ore et schedis a Christiano Schrot in tabulam redacta
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- Latin
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- [Additamentum III. Latin edition]
- [Antwerp] : [Christopher Plantin], [1584]
- Physical Details
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- 1 map : colored ; 37 x 51 cm, on sheet 46 x 58 cm
- OCLC
- ocm80696384
- Cartographic Data
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Scale [ca. 1:600,000] ; Horae itineris [15 horae = 10.2 cm.](E 34°31ʹ00ʺ--E 35°49ʹ00ʺ/N 34°06ʹ00ʺ--N 31°22ʹ00ʺ).
- Copper engraving.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- The map was drawn by Sgrooten based on geographical research of Peter Laicksteen.
- Map oriented with North toward the left and shows the coastline from Gaza northward to Beirut. The Jordan River is depicted erroneously with a huge bend to the east between the two inland seas.
- Title in decorative cartouche with 3 circle medallions of the life of Jesus showing his birth, the cruxificion, and the resurrection.
- Scale also in decorative cartouche at top left.
- The entire map is enclosed in a border with a simple design which was made to resemble a picture frame. Two ships and a sea monster illustrated in the Mediterranean Sea area.
- Bodies of water have stippling for the inland seas with area behind text left blank.
- Geographic coordinates derived from a modern map of the area.
- Includes Latin text in letterpress on verso without page number. Map date based on the last line of Latin text in italic, "cium exequatur. Per Christum Dominum nostrum, Amen." (Koeman's 31:030)--cf. Van den Broecke.
- From: Ortelius Theatrum orbis terrarum, additamentum III. ed. in Latin -- Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1584.
- Koeman-Krogt. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 8150:31C
- Van den Broecke, Ort 173
- Laor, E. Maps of the Holy Land, 543
- Karrow, 70/10.2
- Phillips, 389
- Electronic reproduction also available from George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- From the Maps of the Holy Land collection of Kenneth Nebenzahl.