Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 111

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: PALATINVS BAVARIÆ DESCRIPTIO/ERHARDO REYCH TIROLENSE AVCTORE./ Franciscus Hogenberg Sculpsit [Depiction of the imperial region of Bavaria by Erhard Reych from Tirol. Engraved by Franciscus Hogenberg] - WIRTENBERGENSIS DVCATVS VE:/RA DESCRIPTIO TVBINGÆ EDITA. 1558 [A true depiction of the Duchy of Wirtemberg, published in Tübingen. 1558] (lower right:) Cum priuilegio [with privilege]

Plate size: 310 x 493 mm. Two maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 111 (Koeman/Meurer: 30ab, Karrow: 1/40, 1/41)

Title 111a: Palatinus Bavariæ

Scale: 1 : 650,000. Size: 310 x 243 mm.

Identification number: Ort 111a (Koeman/Meurer: 30a, Karrow: 1/40, vdKrogtAN: 2670:31A).

States: 111a.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Erhart Reich, abt. 1500-1550 or later (Meurer p. 223-224, Karrow 63/1, p. 451-452)

Title 111b: Wirtenbergensis

Scale: 1 : 650,000. Size: 310 x 243 mm.

Identification number: Ort 111b (Koeman/Meurer: 30b, Karrow: 1/41, vdKrogtAN: 2620:31A).

States: 111b.1 only.

Cartographic sources: anonymous single sheet map published in Tübingen in 1559 (Meurer p. 96-97).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1570LAC30 (225 copies printed) (third line of title BAVARIÆ PALATINVS. in smaller font than the first line of the title; last line, centered like two lines above it, italic like only the rest of the text of Wirtemberg: "quod inde Neccarense vocant,fertilis est."),
1570LB30 (100 copies printed) (third line of title BAVARIÆ PALATINVS. in smaller font than the first line of the title; last line, centered like two lines above it, not italic like the rest of the text: generosi vini, quod inde Neccarense vocant,fertilis est.),
1571L30 (275 copies printed) (third line of title BAVARIÆ PALATINVS. in font of the same size as that of the first line; last line, italic like the entire text, centered like 2 lines above it: "quod inde Neccarense vocant,fertilis est."),
1571/1573D30 (350 copies printed) (last line, in cursive script, centered like two lines above it: "daer nae Neckar-wijn noemt".),
1572/1574F30 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 2 lines above it: qui retient le nom d'icelle, s'appelle, Vin de Neckar.),
1572G30 (pasted over p.30 of a 1570L edition; few copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in Gothic script except for one name: schreibt Franciscus Ireincus[!] sehr fein im 8. Buch am 34. Cap. Am Neccar wechst auch köstlicher Wein/den man von ihm den Neccarwein nennet.),
1572/1573G30 (225 copies printed) (last line, cursive like the entire Wirtemberg text, centered like 3 lines above it: "darnach nennen thuet."),
1573L37 (75 copies printed) (version A, first text line ends: excurrit ; version B, first text line ends syl- ; both versions have as last line, centered like two lines above it: Neccarus fluuius,generosi vini,quod inde Neccarense vocant,fertilis est.),
1574L37 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm; non-cursive like the entire Wirtenberg text, centered like one line above it: Necarus fluvius,generosi vini, quod inde Neccarense vocant, fertilis est.),
1575L37 (100 copies printed) (small page number, 7 mm; last line, cursive like the entire Wirtenberg text, centered like one line above it: Necarus fluvius,generosi vini,quod inde Neccarense vocant, fertilis est.),
1579LA53 (250 copies printed) (last line, centered, in italic script: "VVirtenbergum in proxima pagina quam sibi occupat,enarrabitur." ; page number positioned in the extreme right lower corner, further to the right than the last text line.),
1579LB53 (250 copies printed) (last line, centered, in italic script: "VVirtenbergum in proxima pagina quam sibi occupat,enarrabitur." ; page number below the last syllable of last line "enarrabitur."),
1580G53 (200 copies printed) (last line, centered, in Gothic script: es sonderlich ein nimpt/gehandelt werden.),
1581F53 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "& aucunesfois à Grunsfelt, laquelle ville se void außy enceste Carte.)".

Map 111a replaced in 1584L by the half sheet map 112a Palatinus Bavariæ, map 111b by a full sheet Wirtemberg, plate Ort 113.

Approximate number of copies printed: 2875.

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