Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 214

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: QRAKH.|THRACIĆ VETERIS TYPVS.|Ex conatibus Geographicis Abrah. Ortelij. [Thraki (in Greek lettering) Map of Ancient Thrace, from the records of Abraham Ortelius] Cum Imp. et Belgico privile:|gio decennali. 1585. [With an Imperial and Belgian Privilege for ten years. 1585] (cartouche in right top (13 lines of text) and right bottom (19 lines of text) on uncertain locations of places in Byzantium and Thracia respectively). [Lower right:] Cyzicus vrbs|comparari potest|magnitudine, pul:|chritudine, et legib.|cum principibus|Asić civitatib. Strabo [The city of Cyzicus may be compared in size, beauty and laws with the primary societies of Asia, according to Strabo.]

Plate size: 356 x 480 mm.
Scale: 1 : 1,000,000.
Identification number: Ort 214 (Koeman/Meurer: 25P, Karrow: 1/180, van der Krogt AN: 7760H:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1590L4Addblank (100 copies printed) (identical in text and typesetting to 1592L, but here no page number; last line, left aligned: atque in ea vndecim aut duodecim opida esse.Hunc numerum nos ex omni historia veteri superasse,docet tabula.),
1591G4Addblank (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: cher barbarischer menschen der Türcken gefallen|under Mahomet dem ersten dieses Namens|von dennen sie bishero besessen|etc.),
1592L14 (525 copies printed) (identical in text and typesetting to 1590L4Add, but here with page number 14; last line, left aligned: atque in ea vndecim aut duodecim opida esse.Hunc numerum nos ex omni historia veteri superasse,docet tabula.),
1595LR (500 copies printed) (last line of first text page, right aligned: repletum.; penultimate line: pis nascitur,qui solis appulsu ignem inhalet.Plutarchus scribit,haud procul ŕ Pangćo monte fontem esse,ex quo idem vas),
1601Lxxvj (200 copies printed) (first textline ends: om- ; last line first text page, right aligned: aqua ; last line second text page, left aligned: Chersoneso nulla adhibita cultura copiosč crescere.),
1602G24 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: rischer menschen der Türcken gefallen|vnder Mahomet dem ersten dieses Namens|von dennen sie bißhero besessen|&c.),
1603L rarely xxvj, mostly xxxviij (300 copies printed) (text and page number, but not typesetting, identical with 1609/1612S/L which has all text on one page, whereas this edition has two text pages. First textline ends: omnium ; last line, right aligned, first text page: aqua ; last line second text page, left aligned: Chersoneso nulla adhibita cultura copiosč crescere.) ,
1606Exxvj (300 copies printed) (last line, first text page, cursive like the entite text, full width: "thither, may come safe and sound out againe : saue only the beast called" Cantharus : "these neuer come out from thence aliue, but they presently fall aturning|round"),
1608/1612Ixxviij (300 copies printed) (last line, first text page, right aligned: porta ; last line second text oage, left aligned: questo Chersoneso crescer il vino in copia , senza punto di coltiuatione.),
1609/1612Sxxviij (text in Latin)=
1609/1612Lxxviij (600 copies printed) (text and page number, but not typesetting, identical to 1603L, which has two text pages, whereas these editions have only one text page; last line, left aligned: adeat, & Agatjić librum 5.legat. Mirum quod Guilelmus Brussius scribit, vinum nempe in hac Chersoneso nulla adhibita cultura copiosč crescere.),
1619BertiusGGG (200 copies printed) (last line first text page, right aligned: lugentur; last line second text page, left aligned: quod Guilielm.Brussius scribit, vinum nempe in hac Chersoneso nulla adhibita cultura copiosč crescere.),
1624P/1641Sxxxij (1025 copies printed) (last line first textpage second column, right aligned: ex ; last line second text page second column, left aligned: crescere.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 4375.

States: 214.1 as described;
214.2: in 1595 the following topographical names were added: (middle left:) Autonomi, (middle centre left) Agriani, (centre) Macrontichos, (middle right) Chalcis et ;
The name Gammaides was crossed out from the bottom right list of places of uncertqain location.

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 Herodotus, Plinius, Strabo, Appianus, Vergilius, Plutarchus and Sidonius.

Remarks: *Bertius bought a number of sheets with this map and included the map in his historical 1619 atlas Theatrum Geographić Veteris.

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