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Terra sancta sive promissionis, olim Palestina
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- Creator
- recens delineata, et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher
- Included Title
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- Atlas contractus orbis terrarum
- Format
- Maps, Atlases
- Language
- Latin
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Amsterdam] : [Ex officina Nicolai Visscher], anno 1659
- [Amsterdam] : C.J. Visscher
- Physical Details
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- 1 map : colored ; 47.0 x 57.0 cm, on sheet 53.9 x 62.5 cm
- OCLC
- ocm65179335
- Cartographic Data
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Scale approximately 1:768,000(E 34°--E 36°/N 33°--N 30°)
- Copper engraving.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Map of the Holy Land portrayed as Moses would have viewed the land from Mt. Pisgah. The map shows the regions occupied by each of the twelve tribes.
- Title in decorative cartouche with a fruit garland supported by six cherubs.
- Includes "Notarum Explicatio", inset encampment plan of the twelve tribes during the Exodus surrounding the Tabernacle flanked by Moses and Aaron, several sailing vessels and two scale bars with the signature Visscher family image of the fishing boys.
- "C.J. Visscher, excudit"--Bottom left.
- Compass rose oriented with north towards the upper right.
- Scale bars read, "Gemene Duytsche mÿlen van 15 in een graed milliaria Germanica communia" ; "Milliaria unius horae, uren gaens yder sÿnde 24 stadien dat is 3000 passens".
- Geographic coordinates estimated and derived from a modern map of the area.
- Appears in Nicolaes Visscher's Atlas contractus orbis terrarum.
- Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Vis 5
- Phillips, 3431
- Laor, E. Maps of the Holy Land, 793
- Nebenzahl, 49
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Electronic reproduction also available online from George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- From the Maps of the Holy Land collection of Kenneth Nebenzahl.