Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 140

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: APVLIĆ, QVĆ/OLIM IAPYGIA,/NOVA CORO:/GRAPHIA/Jacobo Castaldo/Auctore [A new map of Apulia, once called Iapygia, by Jacobo Gastaldi] Centre left: In hac insula/gainnarum auium/magnus est prouen:/tus, et toti prouencić/salutaris, eň quod/bruchos (peculiare hu:/ic regione malum)/ante quam č terra/prodeant, deuorant;/alias messes deuo:/raturos. [On this island, there are a lot of gaina birds, which is useful for the entire area, because they will devour locusts (a specific scourge of this region) before they land on the earth; otherwise they will eat the harvest. Centre left: BRVNDVSIVM, hodie Brindisi./portum habuit olim toto/terrarum orbe notiß. Nunc/vero obstructo ostio, non/nisi paruis nauib. patet. [Brundusium, nowadays called Brindisi, once had a harbour very well known all over the world. But now, because of its obstructed harbour, only admits small ships]. Upper right: Hic tractus ab:/undat crocu. [This region abounds with saffron].
- CALA:/BRIĆ/DESCRIP./Per/Prosperum/parisium/Consent [Calabria, designed and approved by Prosperus Parisius].

Plate size: 311 x 467 mm. Two maps on one plate.
Identification number: Ort 140

Title 140a: Apulić
Scale: 1 : 600,000. Size: 311 x 217 mm.
Identification number: Ort 140a (Koeman/Meurer: 133a, Karrow: 1/93a, vdKrogtAN: 7450:31B).
States: 140a.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Jacobo Gastaldi 1567, published by Fernando Bertelli (Karrow 30/105, p. 247, Meurer p. 154).

Title 140b: Calabrić
Scale: 1 : 900,000. Size: 309 x 240 mm.
Identification number: Ort 140b (Koeman/Meurer: 133b, Karrow: 1/196, vdKrogtAN: 7490:31B).
States: 140b.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Prospero Parisio, author of a Calabria map, engraved by Natale Bonifacio and published in Rome in 1589 (Meurer p. 212).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1595L5Addblank (100 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1595L, but without page number; last line: si vinum gustent,nisi vetula sit,aut puerpera,&c.Lege plura eunde.Apud Cassiodorum passim quoq.de hac regione),
1595L86 (500 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1595L5Add, but here with page number 86; last line: si vinum gustent,nisi vetula sit,aut puerpera,&c.Lege plura eunde.Apud Cassiodorum passim quoq.de hac regione),
1597G5Addblank (75 copies printed) (typesetting identical to 1602G but without page number; last line, centered like one line above it, in Gothic script: gesunde wasser hat/keinen wein/es were dan ein kindbetterin/oder sunst ein altes weib.),
1601L86 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: in Variis, passim quoq. de hac regione.),
1602G89 (250 copies printed) (typesetting identical to 1597G5Add, but with page number; last line, centered like one line above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: gesunde wasser hat/keinen wein/es were dan ein Kindbetterin/ oder sunst ein altes weib.),
1602S89 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: d'esta region.),
1603L89 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: in Variis , passim quoq. de hac regione.),
1606E86 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: same authour. "Cassiodore" also in his "Variar."hath in diuers places many things of this country.),
1608/1612I98 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tu poi leggere. Appo Cassiodoro anche sparsiamente si tratta di questa regione.),
1609/1612/1641S99 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: in Variis ay mucho desta region.),
1609/1612L99 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: siodorum in Variis,passim quoque de hac regione.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 2900.

Remarks: Ort 140a, Apulić, succeeds Ort 121b and is different in having in the cartouche "IAPYGIA"/, where the early plate has "IAPY:/GIA".

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