Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Ziegler, Jacob, 1480-1549

Title:

Quae intus continentur. : Syria, ad Ptolomaici operis rationem. Praeterea Strabone, Plinio, & Antonio auctoribus locupletata. : Palestina, iisdem auctoribus. Praeterea historia sacra, & Iosepho, & diuo Hieronymo locupletata. : Arabia Petraea, siue, Itinera filiorum Israel per desertum, iisdem auctoribus. Aegyptus, iisdem auctoribus. Praeterea Ioanne Leone arabe grammatico, secundum recentiorum locorum situ[m] illustrata. : Schondia, tradita ab auctoribus, qui in eius operis prologo memorantur. Holmiae, ciuitatis regi[ae] Suetiae, deplorabilis excidij per Christiernum Datiae cimbricae regem, historia. Regionum superiorum, singulae tabulae geographicae.

Alternate Title(s):

Qvae intvs continentvr

Published / Created:

Argentorati [Strassburg] : Apud Petrum Opilionem [i.e. Peter Schöffer] , MDXXXII. [1532]

Physical Description:

cvii, ciii-cx, [18] leaves : ill., maps diagrams ; 29 cm (fol.)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
G95 .Z66 1532+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BEIN: Bound with: Philo Judaeus. Latin ed. Sichardus. Libri antiqvitatvm. Basilea, 1527.

Dedication signed by Jacob Ziegler (leaf II).

The term "Schondia" in the title is used for Greenland and other northern regions.

Contains 8 double-page woodcut maps with descriptive text on the recto of the first leaf of each map, bound at the end. There are 7 maps of the Middle East and Holy Land (one including Cyprus) and one of northern Europe and Scandinavia ("Schondia") with part of Britain, Ireland and "Gronlandia incognita Terra" depicted

Includes list of latitude and longitude coordinates of 500 places of the exodus route.

Errata statement on leaves [17-18] at end

Leaf V wrongly numbered IIII, numbers CIII-CVIII repeated in foliation; maps are bound before this second sequence CIII onwards.

Signatures: a-s⁶ t-v⁴ A-B⁶ C⁴ D² (sig. A-C folding map)

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, entry Z153

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, pre-1675, vol. 1, p. 105

European Americana, entry 532/26

Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima, entry 170

Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici, vol. 6, p. 122

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, entry 106330

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts, entry Z 448

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in later dark blue morocco. Ex-Libris: Liechtensteinianis.

Subject Terms:

Geography -- Early works to 1800. | Scandinavia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Scandinavia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Middle East -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Palestine -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Greenland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Stockholm (Sweden) -- Massacre, 1520 -- Early works to 1800. | Liechtenstein, House of -- Bookplate.

Form/Genre:

Woodcuts.

Contributors:

Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1475–1547, publisher, printer. | Wissenburg, Wolfgang, 1496–1575.