Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 230

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: none, see plate Ort 227. (this is the fourth sheet of the set of four, and contains segments seven and eight). [Upper right: Campi deserti et inhabitabiles.|propter aquæ inopiam. [These fields are deserted and uninhabited because of lack of water.] [Upper right:] Areæ fines Romanorum. [The borders of the Roman army.][Upper right:] Fines exercitus Syriaticæ|et commertium Barbaror. [The border of the Syrian army and of commerce with the barbarians.] [Lower right:] Hic Alexander Responsum accepit|vsque quo Alexander. [Here Alexander the Great received his answer. This is how far Alexander went.] [Lower right:] In his locis scorpiones nascuntur. [Here scorpions live.] [Lower right:] In his locis elephanti nascuntur. [In these regions live elephants.]

Plate size: (top:) 192 x 517 mm. G engraved at mid-bottom. (bottom:) 194 x 516 mm. H engraved at mid-bottom. Two (adjacent) maps on two plates.
Scale: not applicable.
Identification number: Ort 230 (Koeman/Meurer: 47P, not in Karrow; van der Krogt AN: 0910:4:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1619BertiusMM (200 copies printed) (On the backside the only text is: TABVLÆ PEVTINGERIANÆ SEGMENTVM VII. & VIII.) Note that in Bertius this map is followed by a singl;e ninth strip on a singla folio mapsheet, showing Netherland and a part of South-East England.),
1624P/1641Sxlvj (1025 copies printed) (last line, in two columns, first text page: S V E V I A. Augustanum vocabant, vbi repertum fuisse dixe-).

Approximate number of copies printed in the Theatrum: 1225.

States: 230.1 only.

Cartographic sources: see plate Ort 227.

Remarks: selection of cities in the seventh segment (from left to right): Damascus, Cyprus, Antioch, Aleppo, Arabia, Colchi, Mesopotamia. In the eighth segment a.o.: Babylon, Caspian sea, Persepolis, island of Ceylon, river Ganges.

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