Cartographic Wonders
Bünting's Clover-Leaf World
Europe, Asia and Africa as one clover, Jerusalem at the heart.
- Map
- Clover-leaf map of the world
- Mapmaker
- Heinrich Bünting
- Date
- 1585
- Held by
- National Library of Israel, Laor Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Heinrich Bünting drew the known world as a clover leaf: three leaves for Europe, Asia and Africa, and at the centre Jerusalem, where they join. America is pushed into the lower left corner, outside the clover altogether. The map is a picture of faith more than of distance, with the holy city at the heart of everything and the new continent left at the margin. This copy is in the Laor collection at the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem itself. A world map that found its way home to its own centre.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by National Library of Israel, Laor Collection · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
