Hensel 1741 4maps, Gottfried Hensel

Sheet with four maps from synopsis universae philologiae (1741). The maps are labelled europa poly glotta, linguarum geneologiam exhibens, una cum literis, scribendique modis, omnium gentium. Charts of "scythian" (hebrew?), greek, "marcomannic", runic, hibernian (insular), german (blackletter), anglo-saxon, "ruthenian" (cyrillic), hunnic, "sclavonic" (cyrillic), glagolitic and etruscan scripts. The map shows the first phrase of the paternoster in 34 languages (see file:europa polyglotta. Jpg for details) asia poly glotta, linguarum geneologiam, cum literis, scribendique modis, exhibens. Charts of hebrew, syriac, perso-arabic, armenian and palmyrene scripts. Also shown in map: "chaldean", georgian, uzbek (chinese), "brachmanic", "malbaric", "malayic" (arabic), chinese, "tataric" and "japonic" scripts africa poly-glotta scribendi modos gentium exhibens. Charts of aethiopic (ge'ez) and coptic scripts. America cum supplementis poly-glottis. : with charts of "brachmanic" (devanagari) and "zundic" (avestan) scripts to go with the map of asia each map is marked opera godofr. Henselii delineata; in officina homanniana. In addition, the fourth map has s[ebastian]. Dorn sc[ulpsit]. Caption at raremaps. Com: rare set of 4 maps of the continents, identifying the distribution of languages of the world. Each map includes tables identifying the characters of the brach-manniae, aethiopum, zundici, coptica, hybernian, gothic, runic, marcoman, greek, schythic, latin, hungarian, sclavonian, glagolitic, hetroscan and russian languages (with apologies for our misspellings and an invitation to offer corrections). From synopsis universae philologiae. Only the second time we have had this set of maps in 20 years. Date: 1741.