ISRAEL CYPRUS TURKEY MIDDLE EAST IRAN IRAQ 1588 MÜNSTER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP

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ISRAEL CYPRUS TURKEY MIDDLE EAST IRAN IRAQ 1588 MÜNSTER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP
ISRAEL CYPRUS TURKEY MIDDLE EAST IRAN IRAQ 1588 MÜNSTER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP
Description
Syria / Cypern / Palestina / Mesopotamia / Babylonia / zwey Arabia mit Bergen / Wassern und Stetten
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Description:
Striking and highly detailed
unusual 1588 Sebastian Münster woodcut map of
the Middle East from the Nile Delta to the southern coast of Turkey. The map covers Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, a bit of Egypt and southern Turkey. The map shows mountain ranges, rivers, including the Tigris and Euphrates, lakes, numerous towns and villages.
The map is filled with
letterpress title in German in top and text on verso of map, a sailing ship and two frame-style key cartouches.
The Holy Land, during the time of Munster, was under the hold of the Ottoman Empire. In 1486, hostilities broke out between the Mamluks and the Ottoman Turks in a battle for control over western Asia. The Ottomans proceeded to conquer Palestine. The conquest of Palestine was relatively swift, with small battles fought against the Mamluks. The region was divided into the five different states, all part of the larger eyelet of Damascus
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This woodcut was published in the German edition of the "Cosmographiæ Universalis", printed in 1588.
Source:
Münster, Sebastian. Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt. Basel: Henrici Petri, 1588.
Munster's Cosmographia was one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century and had a profound impact on the European perception of the modern world during the 2nd half of the 16th Century. It is the earliest German description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, and French. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the notable woodcuts by famous artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel. In addition, it was also the first to introduce separate maps for each of the four continents known then: America, Africa, Asia and Europe. It was in part because of this book that geography was revived in 16th-century Europe.
The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) from 1544 is the earliest German-language description of the world.
It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian, English, and Czech. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the notable woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel). It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe. Among the notable maps within Cosmographia is the map "Tabula novarum insularum", which is credited as the first map to show the American continents as geographically discrete.
His earlier geographic works were Germania descriptio (1530) and Mappa Europae (1536). In 1540, he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with illustrations.
Editions:
German 1544, 1546, 1548, 1550, 1553, 1556, 1558, 1561, 1564, 1567, 1569, 1572, 1574, 1578, 1588, 1592, 1598, 1614, 1628
Latin 1550, 1552, 1554, 1559, 1572
French 1552, 1556, 1560, 1565, 1568, 1575
Italian 1558, 1575
Czech 1554
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Date:
1588 ( undated )
Dimension:
P
aper size approx.:
cm 46,4 x 36,8
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chain. Map original colored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
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Mapmaker:
Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz on 20th January 1488, the son of Andreas Münster. In 1505, he joined the Franciscan Order, and four years later was sent to the monastery of St. Katherina in Rufach. There he studied under Konrad Pelikan, who was to have great influence over the young man in the next five years. Pelikan was a teacher of Hebrew, Greek, mathematics and cosmography.
In 1529 Munster settled in Basle, where he was to spend the rest of his life. In 1540, Munster's edition of Ptolemy appeared, illustrated with 48 woodcut maps, the standard Ptolemaic corpus supplemented by a number of new maps, of great significance for the mapping of Europe.
Having completed the Geographia, Munster returned to his pet project, the description of Germany. In 1544, he published the first edition of the Cosmographia, a summary both of Munster's own geographical researches and those of his many correspondents. The Cosmographia, with its later expanded editions, was as close as Munster would come to fulfilling the vision of 1528.
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