Auction 113 Illustrious Personalities, Holocaust & Anti-Semitism, Historic Documents, Art, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes & manuscripts
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Apr 8, 2019
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LOT 40:

Incunabula. Map of Jerusalem. Hartmann Schedel. Nuremberg, 1493

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Incunabula. Map of Jerusalem. Hartmann Schedel. Nuremberg, 1493

From: Liber Chronicarum Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten. [Nuremberg Chronicle.] P. XVII. German edition.

Printed only forty years after the invention of the printing press and a year after the expulsion of Spanish Jewry and Columbus' discovery of America. One of the earliest maps of Jerusalem known today.

Laor, 1123. Rubin, Yerushalayim B'Mapot U'B'marot, p. 60.

1 leaf. 28x40 cm. One side features Greater Jerusalem during King Solomon's time with the Holy Temple at center. The other side features the construction of the Tower of Babel.

The map of Jerusalem was hand-painted at a later date. Fine-very fine condition.


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