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Nova XVII. Belgicarum provinciarum descriptio /, industria ac labore summo quam accuratissime in istam minorem formam redacta ... = Nieuwe beschrijvinghe der XVII Neederlandtsche provincien ...
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work is a 1594 map titled 'Nova XVII. Belgicarum provinciarum descriptio' by Baptista van Doetecum. Extensive searches across major library and scholarly catalogs yielded no evidence of a published English translation of the map's Latin text. While cartobibliographical reference works (like Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici) may describe or reference the map, they do not constitute a published English translation of the work itself.
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This 1594 map does more than mark borders. It links the seventeen Belgian provinces to Roman military prestige and the unfolding drama of Christian prophecy.