Tractatuum Biblicorum, Hoc Est Variarum In Diversas Materias Biblicas Commentationum, Volumen Prius: Sive Criticorum Sacrorum Tomus VI.

MONTANUS, BENEDICTUS ARIAS.

Wustius & Andrae

Frankfurt am Main

1696

Second edition. Fine copper-plate Biblical engravings by the German master Joseph à Montalegre, including the rare map of the world captioned in Hebrew (twice the size as the first edition).

A volume from the mammoth series of anthologies of Biblical commentary published by Balthasar Christoph Wust (1656-1707) featuring Jewish scholarly articles in Latin (with a smattering of Greek and Hebrew) by a variety of theologians and historians. In this volume are diverse articles including a treatise on the shape and construction of Noah’s Ark by the French mathematician Jean Borrell and Matthaeus Hostus. The central work is an in-depth analysis (lavishly illustrated) on the Tabernacle and Temples by the renowned Spanish scholar Benedict Arias Montanus (1527-98.). Also present is the important map of the Earth in which the world is divided into two globes, as it were, of the Old and New World. Four cherubs blow the four winds and the seas abound in mythic creatures. Genealogical charts provide the descendants of Biblical Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth, with designations in Hebrew and Latin. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, No. 12: “The first Hebrew map to portray Australia.”