Terra Sancta quae in sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina

Description:

[Willem Janszoon Blaeu ; Jodocus Hondius]. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Bar scale note: "Horae itineris 24 stadiorum 1000 passuum." Shows topography, drainage, islands off coast, tribal boundaries, travel routes, settlements, places of historical interest. Features illustrations of sea monsters and a ship. Decorative cartouche with holy men and dogs. Descriptive text throughout. The map was drawn by Jodocus Hondius the younger, who died in 1629, before its publication. Blaeu bought the plate and replaced Hondius' name with his own. He included the map in his first atlas and all further editions leaving the date 1629. Appears in Blaeu's Atlantis appendix, Amsterdam, 1630.

Creator:

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 and Hondius, Jodocus, 1594 or 1595-1629

Publisher:

Guiljelmi Blaeuw,

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

Twelve tribes of Israel and Christianity

Date Issued:

1629

Spatial Coverage:

Palestine

Rights:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Rights Holder:

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

License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/yb744cf8980