Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 71

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: NOBI:/LIS HAN:/NONIĆ CO:/MITATVS/DESCRIP./Auctore Iaco:/bo Surhonio/Montano. [A depiction of the noble duchy of Hannonia, by the author Iacobus Surhonius Montanus], with imperial and royal privilege for ten years. 1579].
(cartouche upper left:) Pays de Haynault tenu de Dieu et du Soleil. [Land of Hannonia, enlightened by the Lord and the Sun] (top right corner:) Cum privilegijs Imp. et Regi/ Maitis ad decenn./1579. [with imperial and royal privilege for ten years. 1579].

Plate size: 369 x 485 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 71 (Koeman/Meurer: 111, Karrow: 1/116a, van der Krogt AN: 3320:31C)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1579/1580L2Add20b (200 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it, libellulo non contemnenda de hac recenset.),
1579LA30 (200 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it: libellulo non contemnenda de hac recenset. ; 5th line from the bottom ends: va-),
1579LB30 (200 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it: libellulo non contemnenda de hac recenset. ; 5th line from the bottom ends: vitreorum),
1584L36 (750 copies printed) (last line, centered like 4 lines above it: lulo non contemnanda de hac recenset.),
some 1587F36 ,
some 1588S36,
some 1589G30,
some 1592L38,
some 1595L40 (last line, left aligned: Leodius quoque,in suo de Tungris&Eburonibus libellulo,non contemnenda de hac recenset.),
some 1598D32 (last line, in Gothic script: sen vate.Siet hier af "Guicciardinum" en "Lessabćum",die een bysonder boeck van dese landen geschreuen heeft.),
some 1598F43,
some 1601L47,
some 1602G43 (last line, centered like 6 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: ronern.),
some 1602S43,
some 1603blank (Vri1),
some 1603L43,
few 1606E40 (last line, left aligned: things.),
most 1608/1612I48,
most 1609/1612/1641S41 or 46 (last line, left aligned: d'esta prouincia.),
most 1609/1612L47 (last line, left aligned: gris & Eburonibus libellulo , non contemnenda de hac recenset.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 2300.

States: 71.1 as described.
71.2: a post-1612S copy with Spanish text contains the addition at the top, just left of the centre of the cartouche: "Theodorus Galleus excudit Antverpić". The date has been removed in this state.

Cartographic sources: Jacques Surhon made a manuscript map of Hannonia as early as 1548. For security reasons it was not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerpen was independent for a short time, did Ortelius use it. (Meurer p. 250-251).

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 part of the frame, whereas they are inside the frame in the previous version, Ort70.

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