Hensel 1741 4maps
Autor/Urheber:
Gottfried Hensel (mapmaker), Sebastian Dorn (etching), ; w:Johann Homann:Homann heirs
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Sheet with four maps from Synopsis Universae Philologiae (1741).
The maps are labelled
- Europa Poly Glotta, Linguarum Geneologiam exhibens, una cum Literis, scribendique modis, Omnium Gentium. charts of "Scythian" (Hebrew?), Greek, "Marcomannic", Runic, Hibernian (insular), German (blackletter), Anglo-Saxon, "Ruthenian" (Cyrillic), Hunnic, "Sclavonic" (Cyrillic), Glagolitic and Etruscan scripts. The map shows the first phrase of the paternoster in 34 languages (see File:Europa Polyglotta.jpg for details)
- Asia Poly Glotta, Linguarum Geneologiam, cum Literis, scribendique Modis, exhibens. charts of Hebrew, Syriac, Perso-Arabic, Armenian and Palmyrene scripts. Also shown in map: "Chaldean", Georgian, Uzbek (Chinese), "Brachmanic", "Malbaric", "Malayic" (Arabic), Chinese, "Tataric" and "Japonic" scripts
- Africa Poly-Glotta Scribendi Modos Gentium exhibens. charts of Aethiopic (Ge'ez) and Coptic scripts.
- America cum Supplementis Poly-Glottis.: with charts of "Brachmanic" (Devanagari) and "Zundic" (Avestan) scripts to go with the map of Asia
Each map is marked opera Godofr. Henselii delineata; in officina Homanniana. In addition, the fourth map has S[ebastian]. Dorn sc[ulpsit].
caption at raremaps.com:
- Rare set of 4 maps of the continents, identifying the distribution of languages of the world.
- Each map includes tables identifying the characters of the Brach-Manniae, Aethiopum, Zundici, Coptica, Hybernian, Gothic, Runic, Marcoman, Greek, Schythic, Latin, Hungarian, Sclavonian, Glagolitic, Hetroscan and Russian languages (with apologies for our misspellings and an invitation to offer corrections).
- From Synopsis Universae Philologiae. Only the second time we have had this set of maps in 20 years.
Lizenz:
Public domain
Credit:
Synopsis Universae Philologiae[1][2][3]
- immediate source
- scan at raremaps.com; see also oldworldauctions.com, cndp.fr.
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