Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 203

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: PANNONIÆ,/ET ILLYRICI VE:/TERIS TABVLA./Ex conatibus geographicis Abra:/hami Ortelij Antverpiani. [a map of ancient Pannonia and Illyricum from the geographical records of Abraham Ortelius of Antwerp]. (cartouche upper left:) Vis consili expers mole ruit sua. [Violence without judgment collapses under its own weight]. Dño/Ludovico Hal:/lero ab Hallerstein,/stemmate, eruditione,/& animi candore, vere nobili, Ab. Orte:/lius hoc amicitiæ/mnemosynon de:/dicabat. [Abraham Ortelius dedicates this map in memory of his friendship to Mr. Ludovicus Hallerus of Hallerstein as a wreath for his erudition, candour of mind and true nobility.[Violence without judgment collapses under its own weight. ](lower centre:) Cum Gratia et Priuilegio/decennali 1590 [with grace, and a privilege for ten years, 1590]. (cartouche in lower right with 11 lines of places of uncertain location).

Plate size: 358 x 462 mm.
Scale: 1 : 2,300,000.
Identification number: Ort 203 (Koeman/Meurer: 23P, Karrow: 1/178, vdKrogtAN: 7600H:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1590L4Addblank (100 copies printed) (in text and typesetting identical with 1592L, but here without page number; last line, left aligned: uersum necesse est corpus pereat. Ad loca prærupta & accessu difficilis confugere,& ibi commorari gaudent. Hactenus Leo Imp.),
1591G4Addblank (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: in lengde sich erstreckengesehen werden. Und bisher von diesser landschafft/und deren volck/auß den alten Scribenten mehrentheilsigezogen.),
1592L8 (525 copies printed) (as regards text and typesetting identical with 1590L4Add, but here with page number 8; last line, left aligned: uersum necesse est corpus pereat. Ad loca prærupta & accessu difficilis confugere,& ibi commorari gaudent. Hactenus Leo Imp.),
1595LI (500 copies printed) (last line, first text page: bit Alexandrum Seuerum hos in huius peritia vicisse.Isogonus apud Pliniu[m] scribit apud hos esse homines qui visu effascinent),
1601Lxvij (200 copies printed) (last line irst text page, right aligned: tur;ira- ; last line second tetx page, left aligned: tiam nominat.),
1602G15 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: ellen in die lengde sich erstrecken/gestehen werden. Und bißhero von dieser Landtschafft/vnd deren Volck/auß den alten Scribenten mehrenteils gezogen.),
1603Lxix (300 copies printed) (text and page number, but not typesetting, identical with 1609/1612S/L, but here two text pages, in 1609/1612S/L only one; last line first text page, right aligned: drum ; last line second text page: penariam nominat.),
1606Exvij (300 copies printed) (last line, first of two text pages, italic like most of the text, left aligned: Creta. "Thus much of the name and limits of this country out of divers authours".),
1608/1612Ixix (300 copies printed) (last line first text page, right aligned: altro ; last line second text page, full width: ni di questa regione; doue per la desiderabil fertilita delli frutti la chiama la campagna di Rauenna, & la dispensa della prouisione per la citta Reale.),
1609/1612S = 1609L/1612Lxix (600 copies printed) (text for both editions in Latin, last line, left aligned: eam ob fructuum optabilem foecunditatem Rauennæ Campaniam,& Regiæ vrbis cellam penariam nomistat.),
1624P/1641Sxxiij (1025 copies printed) (last line second column first text page: Illyrico prouincias septem & decem numerat : has scilicet,/"Nori-" ; last line second column second text page: Regiæ vrbis cellam penariam nominat.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 4175.

States: 203.1 only.

Cartographic sources: made by Ortelius on the basis of Gastaldi's 1560 map of South-East Europe, (Meurer p. 153), and on information from ancient sources, specifically Plinius, Livius, Bonfinius, Dionus and Aurelius Victor.

References: L. Gróf (1979) The Map Collector 6: 2-11.

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