Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 136

Title: PERVSINI | "agri; exactissima no:|vissimaque descriptio: | auctore | Egnatio Dante". [A very exact and recent representation of the fields of Perugia by Egnatio Dante]. (Top right :) "Cum priuilegio Imperatoris, Regis, | & cancellariĉ Brabantiĉ, ad | decennium | 1584". [With an imperial, royal and Brabant council privilege for ten years 1584]. (Blank cartouche at upper left.) In lake: TRASVMENVS LACVS | "qui" | PLESTINA | "ab Appiano dicitur in An:|:nibalicis". [Lake Trasumenus, once called Plestina by Appianus in his Annibalicis].

Plate size: 334 x 470 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 136 (Koeman/Meurer: 102, Karrow: 1/147, vdKrogtAN: 7340:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1584L3Addblank (100 copies printed) (identical to 1584L, but here without page number; last line, left aligned: uentos esse mortuos.),
1584G3Add17 (75 copies printed) in upper right corner (last line, centred like 7 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: worden.),
1584L73 (750 copies printed) (identical to 1584L3Add, but here with page number; last line, left aligned: uentos esse mortuos.),
1585F3Add4 (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: auroit trouué morts tous deux.),
1587F73 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: trouué morts tous deux.),
1588S73 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: laron muertos.),
1592L78 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: pedem eius dentibus esse deprehensum ; atque ambos inuentos esse mortuos.),
1595L82 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tuos. Hunc lacum aliquando totum arsisse ,tradit Plinius 2.cap.107.),
1598F84 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "vn de ses pieds, & qu'on les auroit trouue morts tous deux."),
1601L82 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Hunc lacum aliquando totum arsisse, tradit Plinius 2.cap.107.),
1602G85 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: gefunden worden.),
1602S85 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: 107.que este lago en algun tiempo aya quemada todo.),
1603L85 (300 copies printed) (text, but not typesetting and pagenumber, identical to 1609/1612L; last line, left aligned: Hunc lacum aliquando totum arsisse, tradit Plinius 2.cap.107.),
1606E82 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: dead. "Plinie" in his second booke, chap.107.testifieth that once this whole Lake did burne.),
1608/1612I94 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: qualche tempo tutto questo lago arse nel 2. lib. al cap. 107.},
1609/1612L95 (300 copies printed) (text, but not typesetting and page number, identical to 1603L; last line, left aligned: Hunc lacum aliquando totum arsisse,tradit Plinius 2.cap.107.),
1609/1612/1641S95 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tos. Dize Plinio 2.cap.107. que este lago en algun tiempo aya quemada todo.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 5475.

States: 136.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Egnatio Danti's 1580 Perugia map, engraved by Mario Cartaro (Meurer p. 136-137).

Remarks: see Hessels nr. 200 concerning doubts of Pigafetta about the accuracy of this map.

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