Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Very Good
Date Acquired: 12/01/2025
Dealers ID No.: 19659
Description: The Wittenberg World Map Daniels Dream Map Magdeburg editions from 1545 or 1550. The printer was Hans Walther. nThis unusual map represents Daniel's interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream. This prophecy from Chapter 7 of the book of Daniel speaks of "the four winds of the heaven and four great beasts [which] came up from the sea." The barely recognizable continents of the Old World – Europe, Asia and Africa – are depicted with the four beasts of Daniel's dream. The world is surrounded by wind heads in a blustery sky and a stormy ocean. Theologians at Wittenberg interpreted this dream as a foretelling of the victory of the Turks at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526, and the image remained popular for several decades thereafter. The map first appeared in a commentary on the prophet Daniel by Martin Luther in circa 1529, and is attributed to the printer Hans Lufft.nAt the time of its first publication as the sixty-first world map to go into print, it was, on the one hand, a depiction of the Old World, based on the Ptolemaic world view but including a number of recent Spanish and Portuguese discoveries, but on the other, a visualisation of the prophet Daniels apocalyptic dream of the four kingdoms.
First published: Wittenberg, 1529
Image Size (cm): 15.2×11.8
Mapmaker: Lufft, Hans
Notes: Purchase details
Price: 1720
Primary Category: World
Purchase Reference: Ledger
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
Sheet size (cm): 16.5×13.5
Shirley ID #: 65 Mapping the World
Technique: Woodcut
This state: 1545 or 1550, Second wood block in a first state
Website: https://www.helmink.com/antique-map/19659/hans-lufft-map-of-daniel-s-…
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