Sebastian Munster:  Tabula Aphricae III [includes Egypt, Babylon, the Nile and the Red Sea]

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Title: Tabula Aphricae III [includes Egypt, Babylon, the Nile and the Red Sea]

Map Maker: Sebastian Munster

Description:

Highly decorative map of the region from the Libyan Sea to the Red Sea, including Babylon, Thebes, the Pillars of Hercules, Hanorum, Alexandria, Memphis, and many other classical places. The Nile has its origin in Aetheopia Sub Aegypto. Interesting scene of a man being swallowed by a sea monster. The map is based upon classical Ptolemaic information.

The map is unchanged from the 1540 edition. Munster's Geographia was a cartographic landmark, including not only Ptolemaic maps, but also a number of landmark modern maps, including the first separate maps of the 4 continents, the first map of England and the earliest obtainable map of Scandinavia. Munster dominated cartographic publication during the mid-16th Century. Munster is generally regarded as one of the three most important map makers of the 16th Century, along with Ortelius and Mercator. Munster was a linguist and mathematician, who initially taught Hebrew in Heidelberg. He issued his first mapping of Germany in 1529, after which he issued a call geographical information about Germany to scholars throughout the country. The response was better than hoped for, and included substantial foreign material, which supplied him with up to date, if not necessarily accurate maps for the issuance of his Geographia in 1540. 

Related Categories:
Maps of Egypt
Maps of North Africa
Maps of the Middle East