Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 69

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: NOBI:/LIS HAN:/NONIĆ CO:/MITATVS/DESCRIP./Auctore Iaco/bo Surhoni:/o Monta:/no. [A Representation of the Earldom of Noble Hannonia by Iacobus Surhonius Montanus] (bottom left:) Franciscus Hogenbergius ex Archetypo coelabat 1572 [Engraved by Franciscus Hogenberg after the original 1572] Upper left: Pays de Haynault tenu/de Dieu et du soleil. [The land of Haynault, held by God and the sun.]

Plate size: 374 x 506 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 69 (not recorded by Koeman or Karrow, van der Krogt AN: 3320:31A)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
some 1573L36 ,
some 1574L36 (large page number, 11 mm),
some 1575L36 (small page number, 7 mm).
Also found in a 1584L atlas with page number 36,
and in a 1595L atlas with page number 40.
1603 (Vrients1) has no text or page number.

States: 69.1 (a proof state?) is a state of which only one copy is known. It does not have the date 1572.
69.2 has the date 1572 added.

Approximate number of copies printed: perhaps about 100, maybe more.

Cartographic sources: Jacques and Jean Surhon 1548.

References: Meurer (1994) Caert-Thresoor 13(3) p. 81-87, on which most of the above information is based. However, this map is not as rare as Meurer suggests. H.A.M. van der Heijden "Ortelius and the Netherlands", p. 271-290 in: M. van den Broecke, P. van der Krogt and P. Meurer (eds.) "Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas", HES Publishers, 1998.

Remarks: See further plates Ort 70 and Ort 71.
Privilege for this map was requested by Ortelius in 1572, but not obtained. The engraving of copperplate was paid for by the authorities, but it was to be destroyed. This did not apply to the prints that had been made from it, which were clearly used.

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