Een taffla på the landskap och stadher, ther then helighe apostelen S. Paulus predicat och vandrat haffuer

Een taffla på the landskap och stadher, ther then helighe apostelen S. Paulus predicat och vandrat haffuer. Til at rett förstå apostla gerningar sÿnnerligha nyttgh och nödigh

Beautiful and rare historical-geographical map depicting the Pauline journeys, i.e. the missions accomplished by St. Paul and described in the Acts of the Apostles and in his own letters. In the typographical legend at the bottom are included the stages of the three (or four) journeys of St. Paul, with the final stop in Rome, where he was tortured. The map shows in the lower right the editorial data with the signature of the designer and engraver Vallentin Staffansson Trautman and in the name of the publisher M. Larsson Schulte.. 

The work is one of two maps illustrating the Biblia thet är: all then helgha scrifft/ på swensko. Effter förre bibliens text/ oförandrat: medh förspråk på the böker ther förr inge woro/ medh summarier för capitelen/ marginalier/ flere concordantier/ samt nyttighe förklaringar och register/ etc. förmerat, published in Stockholm by O. Oloffsson in 1618.  Known as Gustav Adolfs bibel" [The Bible of Gustavus Adolphus], mainly a reprint of Gustav Vasas bibel [The Bible of Gustav I], was printed in a total of 2512 copies. The plates and title-leaves were engraved by Vallentin Staffansson Trautman in Stockholm, while the wodcuts were made by Jacob Mores, a Hamburg goldsmith and engraver.

However, the presence of Larson Schulte's excudit indicates to us that the map of St. Paul's travels also circulated as a separate publication.

Valentin Staffansson Trautman (Trauthman), born around 1580 in Germany, died 1629 in Stockholm, was a German-Swedish draughtsman, graphic artist and copper engraver. He probably came to Sweden around 1616 to make illustrations for various works. Among his commissions are illustrations for Anders Bure's large map Orbis arctoi imprimisque amplissimi regni Suecice tabula and a number of leaves for the 1618 edition of the Bible.

M. Larsson Schulte was a Swedish copper engraver, active in the early 17th century. Schulte lived in Stockholm and was a pupil of Valentin Trautman. He was commissioned to produce illustrations for Gustav II Adolf's Bible, which was published in 1618, including a picture showing where the Holy Apostle Paul preached and walked.

Etching and engraving, printed on contemporary laid paper, perfectly executed restorations to the central fold, overall in good condition. Rare.