Palestinae sive totivs terrae promissionis nova descriptio avctore Tilemanno Stella Sigenen...

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A highly detailed 16th-century map of the Holy Land (Palestine) and surrounding regions, including the Nile Delta, the Mediterranean coast, and parts of Syria and Arabia. The map features:

• Two ornate cartouches: one top-left describing the history of the region's names, and one bottom-right containing the title and authorship.
• Illustrations of four sailing ships and several sea monsters (cetaceans and serpents) in the "GREAT SEA" (Mediterranean Sea).
• A decorative compass rose on the right-hand side.
• Landscape details including mountain ranges, the Jordan River, and numerous settlements.
• At the bottom right, two satyr figures hold a large cartouche while playing long wind instruments.
• A comparative scale bar at the bottom right.

The most ancient name of this land was Canaan, so called from the son of Ham, whose sons divided it among themselves. The inhabitants, moreover, were the Sidonians, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, and Hamathites, etc. This land retained this name until the Israelites in a later age occupied part of that same Canaan and subdued another part. From then it began to be called Israel, after the patriarch Jacob. Others and the latest writers call it Palestine, from the Palestinians, whom the sacred books call the Philistines.
Today it is called the Holy Land.

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A NEW DESCRIPTION
OF PALESTINE OR
THE WHOLE LAND OF
PROMISE, BY THE
AUTHOR TILEMANN
STELLA OF SIEGEN.

With privilege.

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Selected Map Labels:

• EGYPTIAN SEA
• EGYPT
• PART OF THE RED SEA.
• PART OF SYRIA.
• PART OF THE DESERT OF ARABIA.
• COELE Hollow Syria
• SYRIAN SEA
• PHOENICIA
• PHILAEA
• MOAB
• REGION