Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 228

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: none, see plate Ort 227. (this is the second sheet of the set of four, and contains segments three and four). [Low left:] Hij montes subiacent paludi simili|Meotidi p. quem Nilus transit. [The mountains of Cyreneus. At the foot of these mountains there are swamps similar to that of Maeotis which is crossed by the river Nile.] [bottom left:] Fl. Nilus qui diuidit Asiam et Libiam. [The river Nile which forms the border between Asia and Libia.] [Lower right: Desertum i.u. quadraginta annis|errauert filij Isrl' ducente Moyse. Hic legem acceperunt î monte Syna. [The desert in which the children of Irael roamed for forty years under the leadership of Mozes. Here they received the law near Mount Sinai.]

Plate size: (top:) 193 x 517 mm. C engraved at mid-bottom. (bottom:) 193 x 517 mm. D engraved at mid-bottom. Two (adjacent) maps on two plates.
Scale: not applicable.
Identification number: Ort 228 (Koeman/Meurer: 45P, not in Karrow, van der Krogt AN: 0910:2:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1619BertiusKK (200 copies printed) (this version includes the headings "à Marcomannis ad Sarmatas vqque. and à Sarmatis vsque ad Hamimaxobius. Further, the backside only says TABVLÆ PEUTINGERIANIÆ/SEGMENTVM III & IV.),
1624P/1641Sxliiij (1025 copies printed) (last line first text page, in two columns: respexit : Metatorem on Geogra- perium , ex quo Constantius & Galerius).

Approximate number of copies printed in the Theatrum: 1225.

States: 228.1 only

Cartographic sources: see plate Ort 227.

Remarks: selection of cities in the third segment (from left to right): Sienna, Verona, Salzburg, Bologna, Tebessa, Bolsena, Ljubliana, Wien, Rimini, Ancona, Spoleto, Budapest. In the fourth segment a.o.: Roma, Carthago, Tivoli, Terracina, Split, Pozzuoli, Napoli, Pompei, Salerno, Palermo, Beograd, Tarente, Syracuse, Messina.

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