CALMET

PLAN DE LA VILLE D’EPHESE

SELON PITTON DE TOURNEFORT

Dimensions: 32 x 43 cm. (on sheet: 39 x 45.5 cm.).

Condition: good (minor foxing)
Verso: blank.

Publisher: Emery, Saugrain, Pierre Martin. Paris.
Note: from “Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible(…)”

Antoine Augustin Calmet (26 February 1672 – 25 October 1757), was born at Ménil-la-Horgne, located in the region of Lorraine).
Calmet was a monk, a learned man, and one of the most distinguished members of the Congregation of St. Vanne. In recognition of these qualities he was elected prior three times. He was twice entrusted with the office of Abbot General of the congregation. Pope Benedict XIII wished to confer episcopal dignity upon him, but his humility could not be brought to accept the honor. Calmet died at Senones Abbey, in the Vosges, where worked and lived the last part of his life.