1587 BÜNTING, H. - The early German edition of Bünting's Itinerarium, including the famous world map in the form of a clover leaf
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch...
| Maker: | BÃœNTING, H. | |
| Date: | Magdeburg, 1587 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 330 x 220 mm / 13 x 8.7 inches | |
| Condition: | 2 works in 1 vol. Folio (330 x 220 mm). Bound in period pigskin over wooden boards, elaborately tooled in blind, borders of vines and portraits around central panel, two clasps; some spotting and rubbing. Deleted stamp and ownership inscription to title. | |
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The early German edition of Bünting's Itinerarium illustrated with 12 (10 double-page) woodcut maps and plans: 2 world maps (including the famous world map in the form of a clover leaf (Shirley 142) with the three principal continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, arranged in the form of a clover leaf with Jerusalem at the center.
Three countries lie outside this trefoil: England, Scandinavia, and, in the lower left-hand corner, America. Sea monsters and mermaids adorn this uniquely designed cartographic curiosity.
Asia as Pegasus, Africa, two of the Holy Land, Egypt, a map of the Eastern Mediterranean and plans of Jerusalem and the temple.
An early, original German edition of a classic account of Biblical travels, the Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, was written by the Hannover (in Lower Saxony) Lutheran pastor and theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606).
First published by Jakob Lucius the elder at Helmstedt in Lower Saxony in 1581, with the third volume, De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae, added in 1582.Â
Bünting, although he had never actually visited Palestine, produced an original work by recasting sacred scripture into a Reissbuch" (Noonan); "the most complete summary of the knowledge of that day concerning the geography of the biblical events" (Van der Heijden, p. 55).Â
The Chronica, matching in format and produced by the same printer and publisher at the same time, contains a wealth of historical, military, heraldic and genealogical information, beautifully illustrated with finely detailed woodcuts.
Together with: Uber das Buch Josua.
Together with: De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae.
Reference: I. VD 16, ZV 31708 and B 9167; IA 127.702-05; Tobler 209; for the maps Shirley, World 142-143 (A. 1581), Laor 140-143, Zacharakis 501, Hill, Curiosities 46 and 47 (with illustration.) also Tooley, Oddities 2, 3, 88. van der Heijden, Bünting in: Cartogr. Helvetica 23, p.5.
Together with a first edition of : Adam Nachenmoser von Brandwälden: Prognosticon theologicum. Das ist: Gaistliche grosse Practica auß Hailiger Biblischer Schrifft und Historien. Von der Welt Naahe und Garauß. Inhaltend, die verwunderlichsten Veraenderungen im Kirchenstand und allen Policeien ... Alles nun erstmals vorgestellt und zusamen getragen.
10., 18, 118, 127pp, one full sheet, title in black and red. With two woodcuts in the text. Leiden, Wernher Jobsson (Strasbourg, Bernhard Jobin), 1588.
The dissolution of the pseudonym is controversial; it is often ascribed to Johann Fischart (most recently by Eymer). ADB XXIII, 698 mentions the theologian Georg Nigrinus as the author. (Schwartz). A second edition appeared in 1598.
It includes a round wood-block-printed map of the eastern hemisphere.
Reference : II. VD 16, N 19; Goed. II, 505, 78; Muller 593, 182; Ackermann I, 593.
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