Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 148

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: CYPRVS INSVLA [The isle of Cyprus] C. Biancho, olim/Phnurium Prom./ex quo solent pręcipitari qui/Apollinis aram contigerant. [Cape Biancho once called the Promontory of Phrurium, from which those were used to throw themselves down who were concerned with the altar of Apollo.] - CANDIA, OLIM CRETA [Candia, once called Crete] Lower left: Gozo, olim Claudia/Gaudos Melę ad/quam D. Paulus appulit Act.27. [Gozo, once called Gaudi of Mela, where St. Paul once landed, Acts 27.] Hoīes et iumenta hic/in cauernis sub terra/habitant. [Here human beings and beasts of burden live in subterranean caves.]

Plate size: 364 x 434 mm; two maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 148.

Title 148a: Cyprus

Scale: 1 : 700,000. Size: 178 x 434 mm.

Identification number: Ort 148a (Koeman/Meurer: 39a, Karrow: 1/58, vdKrogtAN: 8130:31A).

States: 148a.1 as described.
148a.2: between 1573 and 1574, stippling was added underneath the leftmost ship.

Cartographic sources: Camocio 1566, Pagano (Karrow p. 8, Meurer p. 125).

Title 148b: Candia

Scale: 1 : 700,000. Size: 178 x 434 mm.

Identification number: Ort 148b (Koeman/Meurer 39b, Karrow 1/59, vdKrogtAN: 7900:31A).

States: 148b.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Camocio 1564, Bordoni 1528

Remarks: Display on 148b of labyrinth and of caves where aboriginal inhabitants lived.

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1570LAC39 (225 copies printed) (last line: italic like the entire Candia but not Cyprus text, centered like one line above it: "vt qui diligentissime eam perlustrauerit."),
1570LB39 (100 copies printed) (last line, not italic, centered like two lines above it: vt qui diligentissimč eam perlustrauit.),
1571L39 (275 copies printed) (last line, not italic, centered like 2 lines above it: vt qui diligentissimč eam perlustrauit.),
1571/1573D39 (350 copies printed) (last line, in cursive script, centered: "ende aen het hooft-eynde sietmen oock noch een Epitaphium van Jupiter".),
1572G39 (pasted over p.39 of a 1570L edition, few copies printed) (last line, left aligned, partly in Gothic script: lai, obseruationes Orientales, Andream Theuetum, Petrum Bellonium, &c. Petrus Gyllius hat Bosphorum und die Statt Constantinopel gar vleissig beschriben.),
1572/1573G39 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it: oder gedechtnis von Juppiter.),
1572/1574F39 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 2 lines above it, in cursive script like the entire Candia section: "encore vne Epitaphe de Iupiter, engravé au bout de la teste."),
1573L51 (75 copies printed) (Version A line 25 from the top ends: flu- ; Version B line 25 from the top ends flu ; both versions have as their last line, centered like one line above it: in suo Itinerario Hierosolymitano ; & Bellonius in suis Obseruationibus. ; second line from the top ends: omnibus,),
1574L51 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm; 4th line from the bottom ends: diuen- ; second line from the top ends: omnibus ; last line, centered like the one above it: in suo Itinerario Hierosolymitano; & Bellonius in suis Obseruationibus.),
1575L51 (100 copies printed) (small page number, 7 mm; second line from the top ends: omni- ; last line, centered like the one above it: in suo Itinerario Hierosolymitano;&Bellonius in suis Obseruationibus.),
1579LA70 (250 copies printed) (last line, centered like two lines above it: rario Hierosolymitano ; & Bellonius in suis Obseruationibus.),
1579LB70 (250 copies printed) (last line, centered like the line above it: cognitionem attinent,adducit,in sua peregrinatione Hierosolymitana.),
1580G70 (175 copies printed) (last line, centered like 4 lines above it, partly in Gothic script: uationibus "oder Verzeychnussen".),
1581F70 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: temps le mieux de tous "Iodocus" ą Gistele en son voyage de Ierusalem,& Bellon en ses Obseruations.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 2825.

Remarks: From 1584 replaced by plate Ort 147.

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