Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 70

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: NOBI:/LIS HAN:/NONIÆ CO:/MITATVS/DESCRIP./Auctore Iaco:/bo Surhonio/Montano. Cum privilegijs Imp. et Regi/Maitis ad decenn./1579 [A depiction of the noble duchy of Hannonia, by the author Iacobus Surhonius Montanus, with imperial and royal privilege for ten years. 1579].

Plate size: 370 x 495 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 70 (Koeman/Meurer 81, Karrow:1/116, van der Krogt AN: 3320:31B)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1579/80L2Add20B (250 copies printed),
1579L(AB)30 (500 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it: libello non contemnenda de hac recenset.),
1580/1589G30 (350 copies printed) (last line, centered like 6 lines above it, in Gothic script: ronern.),
1581F30 (400 copies printed) (last line not available; first line: Lessabæus escrit (ne sçay de quelle autorité) que ceste Prouince esté autre-),
1587F36 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, last three words in cursive script: donné le titre "De Tungris & Eburonibus".),
1588S36 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: prouincia.),
most 1592L38 (200 copies printed?) (last line, left aligned: dius quoque,in suo de Tungris & Eburonibus libellulo,non contemnanda de hac recenset.),
few 1595L40 (100 copies printed),
most 1598/1610/1613D32 (70 sheets printed) (last line, full width, Gothic script: sen vate.Siet hier af Guicciardinum, en Lessabæum,die een bysonder boeck van dese landen geschreven heeft.),
most 1598F43 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: donné le titre "De Tungris & Eburonibus".),
some 1601L47 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned but almost full width: Leodius quoque, in suo de Tungris et Eburonibus libellulo, non contemnenda de hac recenset.),
some 1602G43 (100 copies printed),
some 1602S43 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: sta prouincia.),
some 1603L43 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: gris & Eburonibus libellulo , non contemnenda de hac recenset.),
most 1606E40 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: things.),
some 1608/1612I48 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: de gli Eburoni.),
most 1609/1612/1641S46 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: d'esta prouincia.),
some 1609/1612L47 (100 copies printed).

Approximate number of copies printed: 3900.

States: 70.1 as described;
70.2 between 1592 and 1598 "Fania silva" and "Theoracia silva" were added in the lower right corner; the strapwork in the extreme upper left corner was changed from oblique diagonal hachuring to horizontal and vertical hachuring resulting in upright squares;
70.3 after 1612S and before 1641S "Theodorus Galleus excudit/Antwerpiæ" was added at the top left of the cartouche.

Cartographic sources: Jacques Surhon made a manuscript map of Hannonia as early as 1548.

References: 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: Note that the four wind directions are not on the frame but just inside it.
For security reasons, this map was only published in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time (Meurer p. 250-251). It continued to be used when its successor Ort71 became available in 1584, and is much more common than Ort71.

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