Biblical Geography: Maps in Sixteenth-Century Printed Bibles from the Low Countries

Maps in Dutch printed Bibles made their debut when the Bible was first printed in large folio format in the Low Countries. The first complete Dutch Bible in the folio format that appeared on the market, by Jacob van Liesvelt in 1526, already included a map. This was a map of the Exodus, the Israelit...

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Published in:Church history and religious culture
Main Author: Hollander, August den 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Church history and religious culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 99, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-150
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Netherlands / Bible / Book printing / Map / History 1526-1600
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBD Benelux countries
RH Evangelization; Christian media
Further subjects:B maps in Bibles
B Dutch printed Bibles
B Biblical Geography
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Summary:Maps in Dutch printed Bibles made their debut when the Bible was first printed in large folio format in the Low Countries. The first complete Dutch Bible in the folio format that appeared on the market, by Jacob van Liesvelt in 1526, already included a map. This was a map of the Exodus, the Israelites' journey through the desert from the land of Egypt to the promised land of Canaan. In the course of the second half of the sixteenth century, additional maps appeared in Bibles published in the Low Countries. In the sixteenth century, maps are found in both Catholic and Protestant Bibles.
ISSN:1871-2428
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09902005