Villalpando's important large-scale plan of Jerusalem

VILLALPANDO, Juan Bautista.

Vera Hierosolymae veteris imago a Ioanne Baptista Villalpando Cordubensi e Societate Iesv elaborata pro svo Vrbis ac Templi Hierosolymitani apparatv collato stvdio cvm P.Hieronymo Prado ex eadem societate.
Rome, c.1604. Two sheets conjoined, total 680 x 750mm.

Trimmed to printed border; binding folds flattened as usual in large maps, very minor repairs at folds.

An imaginary plan of ancient Jerusalem, orientated with north to the right, showing the city before the Christian era. Outside the city walls are the camps of various invaders, including the Romans under Pompey and Titus.
Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552-1608), a Spanish Jesuit scholar & architect, drew reconstructions of the classical city based on the assumption that the buildings of Jerusalem were designed using the laws of geometry and based on the ideals of the Roman writer Vitruvius. This plan was published in "Expnaationes in Ezechielis et apparatus urbis ac templi Hierosolymitani'' by Hieronymus Prado and Villalpando.

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