Title(s)

Kaart van Palestina
Terrae Sanctae seu terrae promissionis nova descripto (title on object)

Object type

• print
• map

Object number

RP-P-OB-102.616

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 10

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• label: ‘1870: palestina [...]’

Description

Een kaart van Palestina, met opschriften die betrekking hebben op de gebeurtenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament. Bovenaan links een kleine kaart van het Midden-Oosten met een legende. Bovenaan rechts een kaart van Egypte. In de rand voorstellingen uit het Oude en Nieuwe Testament. Kaart is digitaal samengesteld uit 10 afzonderlijke delen.

Artist

• print maker: Nicolaes van Geelkercken (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Arnoldus van Geilkercken (mentioned on object)
• Nicolaes van Geelkercken (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Nicolaes van Geelkercken (mentioned on object)

Place

after design by: Italy
Leiden
publisher: Leiden

Dating

1621

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

width c. 2024 mm × height c. 1096 mm

What

• the building of the Tower of Babel; Nimrod may be present, supervising or assisting the construction
• the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22)
• Moses coming down from Mount Sinai
• David beheads Goliath with a sword
• maps, atlases
• circumcision of the Christ-child by the priest in the temple (Luke 2:21)
• multiplication of loaves and fishes for a multitude of four or five thousand people (Matthew 14:13-21, 15:32-39; Mark 6:32-44, 8:1-10; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14)
• Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)
• Moses (not in biblical context); possible attributes: rays of light or horns on his head, rod, Tables of the Law - other activities, relationships, etc. of male persons from the Old Testament
• Adam and Eve holding (and possibly eating) the fruit
• the drunkenness of Noah
• the killing of Abel: Cain slays him with a stone, a club or a jaw-bone, alternatively with a spade or another tool as weapon
• angel (possibly with book) ~ symbol of St. Matthew
• the apostle James the Great; possible attributes: book, pilgrim's cloak, hat, shell, staff, and wallet, scroll, sword
• the apostle Peter, first bishop of Rome; possible attributes: book, cock, (upturned) cross, (triple) crozier, fish, key, scroll, ship, tiara
• the apostle John the Evangelist; possible attributes: book, cauldron, chalice with snake, eagle, palm, scroll
• the apostle Andrew; possible attributes: book, X-shaped cross, fish, fishing-net, rope, scroll
• tabernacle ~ altar
• seven lamps ~ 'menorah'
• Ark of the Covenant ~ Jewish religion
• the apostle James the Less, first bishop of Jerusalem; possible attributes: book, fuller's club, scroll
• the apostle Bartholomew; possible attributes: book, devil or dragon at feet, knife, scroll, flayed skin, staff
• the apostle Thomas; possible attributes: book, chalice, girdle, heart, lance or spear, scroll, square, stones
• the apostle Philip; possible attributes: book, cross, dish with snake, lance, scroll, stone, sword
• Luke the evangelist; possible attributes: book, (winged) ox, portrait of the Virgin, surgical instruments, painter's utensils, scroll
• Mark (Marcus) the evangelist, and bishop of Alexandria; possible attributes: book, (winged) lion, pen and inkhorn, scroll
• Christ
• altar
• tabernacle, 'mishkan' ~ Jewish religion
• the altar of incense, the golden altar ~ Jewish religion
• the altar of burnt offering, the brazen altar ~ Jewish religion
• altar ~ Jewish religion
• baptismal font
• life and acts of Judas Thaddaeus
• life and acts of Simon Zelotes
• the apostle and evangelist Matthew (Mattheus); possible attributes: angel, axe, book, halberd, pen and inkhorn, purse, scroll, square, sword
• the apostle and martyr Matthias; possible attributes: axe, book, cross, halberd, scroll, sword
• comprehensive representation of Last Judgement: Christ (with sword and lily), often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devils
• high priest ~ hierarchy of priests
• Resurrection of Christ
• descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)

Where

• Palestina
• Midden-Oosten
• Israël
• Egypte

Acquisition

unknown 2010

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.493)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.494)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.495)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.496)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.497)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.498)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.499)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.500)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.501)
• Kaart van Palestina (RP-P-OB-52.502)

• Fouceel - Gole, p. 93, cat.nr. 10
• J. Keuning, Nicolaas Geelkercken, in: Imago Mundi, 1-3 (1958), 174-178.