Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 82

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: FRISIÆ ORIENTALIS DESCRIPTIO. [A depiction of East Friesland] (cartouche lower left corner:) Ioes Florianus describ. [depicted by Iohannes Florianus] (middle left:) Cum priuilegio Imp./et Reg. Mts ad decennium .1579. [With the Imperial and Royal Majesties privilege for ten years .1579.]

Plate size: 314 x 447 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 82 (Koeman/Meurer: 84, Karrow: 1/119, van der Krogt AN: 2310:31A)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1579/1580L2Add24b (250 copies printed) (24th line from the top ends: mil ; last line, centered like 1 line above it: primariis eorum opidis vocati.),
1580G2Add24B (50 copies printed),
1579LA37 (250 copies printed) (no quotation marks in right margin from line 5 to line 16; 24th line from the top ends: mil- ; last line, centered like 1 line above it: primariis eorum opidis vocati.),
1579L37 (250 copies printed) (quotation marks in right margin from line 5 to line 16; 24th line from the top ends: mille- ; last line, centered like 1 line above it: primariis eorum opidis vocati.),
1580/1589G37 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: andere Graaffschaften/Esens nemlich/und Jeueren/die von ihren Fürnembsten Stätten also genennet seind.),
1581F37 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: mez du nom des villes principales qui sont en ladite region.),
1584L43 (750 copies printed) (last line, centered like one line above it: primariis eorum opidis sic vocati.),
1587F43 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: mez du nom des villes principales qui sont en ladite region.),
1588S43 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: principales, que assi se llaman.),
1592L45 (400 copies printed) (some copies of the 1592L edition have plate Ort 83).
Replaced during 1592L by plate 83 which has an inset.
[The 1602G editions at the Plantin Museum in Antwerp and Univerity Library Groningen still have this plate, with page number 50 at Plantijn, Groningen no page number, apparently leftover sheets that one did not want to discard. The typesetting, which is identical with that of the 1580/1589G edition seems to confirm this].
1602G50 (last line, left aligned: andere Graaffschafften/Esens nemlich/und Jeueren/die von ihren Fürnembsten Stätten also genennet sind).

Approximate number of copies printed: 3250.

States: we know 82.1 only.

Cartographic sources: based on a manuscript map by Jan Bloemmaerts or Johannes Florianus (Meurer p. 146), a schoolmaster of Antwerp. The Catalogus Auctorum also mentions David Fabricius Esensis and Laurentius Michaelis ab Hogenkirchen as authors of East Frisia maps.

References: A.W. Lang (1985) Kleine Kartengeschichte Frieslands zwischen Ems und Jade, Norden, p. 24-27.

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