Ierusalem ciuitas sancta, olim metropolis regni Iudaici, hodie uero colonia Turcae. Double-page woodcut view, hand-colored by R.V. Tooley.

MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN.

Basel, Henrich Petri, first edition 1544, (or later)

Laor 1085.

From: Muenster’s Cosmo–graphia, Basel, 1544. Place names in German, descriptive text in Latin. On verso appear 11 lines of Hebrew text in praise of Jerusalem entitled: “Civitas Iervsale…” as well as an imaginary view of Acre. German cartographer, cosmographer and foremost Christian Hebraist scholars of his time, Sebastian Muenster (1489-1552) published his Cosmographia in 1544. It was the earliest German description of the world and had a profound impact on the 16th century European perception of the modern world.