Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 131

Title: FLOREN|TINI DOMI:|NII, FIDELISSIMA | ET NOVA DESCRIPTIO | "Auctore D. Stephano Monacho Montisoliveti". [A most reliable new representation of the area of Florence by Mr. Stephanus Monachus of Orivieti].

Plate size: 343 x 466 mm.
Scale: 1 : 600,000.
Identification number: Ort 131 (Koeman/Meurer: 132, Karrow: 1/195, vdKrogtAN: 7205:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1595L5Addblank (100 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1595L but without page number; last line, left aligned: in hac tabula, accuratè tamen à suo auctore delineata.),
1595L81 (500 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1595L5Add, but here with page number 81; last line, left aligned: in hac tabula, accuratè tamen à suo auctore delineata.),
1597G5Addblank (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script, see also 1602G: ste/doch in diser Taffeln nicht verzeichnet werden.),
1598F83 (525 copies printed) (stat de ceste superbe cité a esté manié iusques à present.),
1601L81 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: intellexerim. nec quoque in hac tabula,accuratè tamen à suo auctore delineata.),
1602G84 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text, identical in typesetting to 1597G5Add., but here with page number: ste/doch in diser Taffeln nicht verzeichnet werden.),
1602S84 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: poco estan en esta tabla curiosamente notados por su author.),
1603L84 (300 copies printed) (last line, full width: strorum apud neminem alium mentionem fieri intellexerim.nec quoque in hac tabula, accuratè tamen à suo auctore delineata.),
1606E81 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: thour,notwithstanding that he hath described the country most curiously.),
1608/1612I90 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like 12 lines above it: "ciuto d'aggiungere, non hauendo di questi Castelli inteso da verrus altro farsi memoria, ne mano in questa tauola quantumque dal suo autore con diligenza dissegnata."),
1609/1612L90 (300 copies printed) (last line, full width: strorum apud neminem alium mentionem fieri intellexerim,nec quoq; in hac tabula, accuratè tamen à suo auctore delineata.),
1609/1612/1641S90 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tanpoco estan en esta tabla curiosamente notados por su author.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 3425.

States: 131.1 one state only.

Cartographic sources: Stefano Buonsignori made a map of Florence and surroundings, engraved in 1584 by Domenico Vito (Meurer p. 121-122).

Remarks: this map reached Ortelius through Macarius. On March 18, 1595, he asked Ortelius in a letter whether he had received the map, see Hessels nr. 269.
Note that this is the only map by Ortelius mentioning West, North and East, but omitting South.

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