A Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Map from Mantua

Author: Rubin Rehav  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 0308-5694

Source: Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, Vol.62, Iss.1, 2010-01, pp. : 30-45

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Abstract

A unique Hebrew map of the Exodus and the Holy Land was printed in Mantua, Italy, in the mid-sixteenth century. This map is graphically and artistically different from all other Hebrew maps, both earlier and later. The aim here is to analyze the map and the text that is printed on it, explore the reasons for, and the context of, its printing, and identify its sources within contemporary Jewish scholarship and Christian cartography. The only known exemplar of this map is in the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland.