AD 1581 · 16th century · Magdeburg
The world in a clover leaf
Bünting arranges three continents as a Christian emblem whose leaves meet at Jerusalem.
Catalogue record
| Cartographer | Heinrich Bünting |
|---|---|
| Edition | Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, 1581 edition |
| Medium | Woodcut in a printed book |
| Custody | No specific impression traced |
Open questions
Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.
- edition
- The reproduction used here is not tied to an identified copy, and the clover-leaf woodcut recurs across the Itinerarium reprints. Whether it comes from the 1581 edition this record names is untested. Matching the reproduction to a specific copy in an institutional collection, then collating the woodcut against the edition census.
Tags
- clover leaf
- Jerusalem
- emblem
- woodcut
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Bibliography
- Woodward, David. “Medieval Mappaemundi.” In The History of Cartography, vol. 1, 286–370. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
- Harley, J. B. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.