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.
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Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598 and Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589
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