Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 229

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: none, see plate Ort 227. (this is the third sheet of the set of four, and contains segments five and six).

Plate size: (top:) 193 x 518 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 229 (Koeman/Meurer: 46P, not in Karrow, van der Krogt AN: 0910:3:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1619BertiusLL (200 copies printed) (the backside only contains the text: TABVLÆ PEVTINGERIANÆ SEGMENTVM V. & VI. Further, the title of the lower strip there has been added: à Sarmatis Roxulanis vsque ad Parnacos).
1624P/1641Sxlv (1025 copies printed) (last line first text page in two columns: men accepere. in vetusta Inscriptio- dicio est illas diuersa itinera respicere. Qui-).

Approximate number of copies printed in the Theatrum: 1225.

States: 229.1 only.

Cartographic sources: see plate Ort 227.

Remarks: selection of cities shown in the fifth segment (from left to right): Skopje, Olympia, Patras, Corinthe, Sofia, Sparta, Athene, Saloniki, Bengasi, Constantsa. In the sixth segment a.o.: Constantinople, Creta, Alexandria and Nile estuary, Ankara, Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, Jericho.

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