![]() ![]() 1 Sheep Cartouche with a city on its head and another on its butt.(These would be useful for Inns as well.) (It’s possible the six-pointed star represents synagogues, but I haven’t been able to confirm that.) (FWIW, going forward “elevated” means: on a hill/mountain.) It’s possible these could mean something else entirely.) (This is my best guess for these symbols based on my previous map research. That said, inside Blaeu, you’ll discover: There were also quite a few symbols never explained.īe warned, there’s a lot here, and the list below is enormous with quite a few unique elements you don’t find in other sets. I took Latin way back in High School and weirdly retained a lot of it so I was able to fumble through, but I know I missed a lot. Blaeu didn’t include a key or legend, so I had to do my best translating. But there were a few ideograms I couldn’t figure out. ![]() Most of the symbolism on the map was clear. After hours of labor, I’m happy to announce Blaeu: an enormous brush set (over 500 brushes in total) with a wide variety of options and variants. Despite the difficulty of conversion I vowed to make this a useable brush set. Each object fits within its family but each feels unique. Each city feels distinctive, and the mountains and hills are meticulously rendered. With a unique style, Blaeu details events, sites, and cities made famous in the Bible and he does so with flair. ![]() Want to help support this work?Īs best I can tell, Terræ Sanctæ (“Holy Land” in Latin) is essentially a tourist map of what is now Israel and Palestine. It’s the last map in the atlas that served as the source for my latest free brush set: Joan Blaeu’s beautiful Terræ Sanctæ.Īll my Map Tools will always be free. But it’s not the atlas itself that we’re looking at today, it’s one of the copperplate maps tucked away inside. The Klencke Atlas is one of the largest books in the world, standing nearly six feet tall and over six feet wide when opened and weighing in at over four-hundred pounds. When the British crown was restored in 1660, King Charles II received an enormous atlas as a gift from Professor Joannes Klencke. ![]()
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