Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 48

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: GAL/LIÆ/NARBO/NENSIS/ORA MA/RITTIMA Recenter/descripta. [A recent depiction of Narbonne in France, harbour at the sea] (upper right:) Cum Priuilegio. [With Privilege]. Latin text of 6 lines in sea: [In Maguelon you find the house and church of the Bishop of Monspesse, formerly see of the same bishop, called the Bishopric of Magalon. It lies amidst pools.] Sylva est ex tamariscis:/locus latronibus infestus. [This wood consists of tamarind trees; it is a place infested by crooks.] Vaucluse, locus ubi Petrarcha/magnam partem carminum/ italicorum composuit. [Vaucluse, the place where Petrarca composed a large part of his Italian verses.] Tour d'y insula/ubi Brutus stationem nauiû/ habuit cum Maßilia a C. Iulio obsideretur. [Tour, the island where Brutus had his fleet together with Marseille, where he was besieged by Iulius Cæsar.] - SABAVDIÆ, ET/BVRGVNDIÆ Co:/mitatus descriptio; auctore/Ægidio Bulonio Belga. [A Representation of the Dukedom Savoye and Burgundy by Ægidius Bulonius the Belgian]. [Cartouche with 7 lines of Latin text middle right:] Those living in this area call this side of the river "Of the Kingdom", the other side of the river "Of the Empire".

Plate size: 303 x 447 mm. Two maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 48.

Title 48a: Narbonensis. West at the top.

Scale: 1 : 700,000. Size: 303 x 223 mm.

Identification number: Ort 48a (Koeman Meurer: 12a, Karrow 1/19, van der Krogt AN: 4652:31A).

States: 48a.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Carolus Clusius or Charles de l'Escluse (1526-1609) was invited by Ortelius to make a hand-drawn map (which turned out not to be very accurate), of the Southern French coast (Meurer p. 128, Karrow 59/5 p. 438). Perhaps to reduce its significance, it later appeared as plate 49a on a much smaller scale.

Title 48b: Sabaudiæ et Burgundiæ

Scale: 1 : 1,500,000. Size: 303 x 213 mm.

Identification number: Ort 48b (Koeman/Meurer: 12b, Karrow: 1/20, van der Krogt AN: 4760:31A).

States: 48b.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Gilles Boileau de Bouillon (1510-1563) made a two-sheet map of Savoye which was published by Hieronymus Cock in 1556 (Karrow 12/20, p. 85-86, Meurer p. 116).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1570LAC12 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 4 lines above it: non Robertum Cœnalem. Last word 5th text line: Rho-),
1570LB12 (100 copies printed) (last line, centered like 4 lines above it: non Robertum Cœnalem. Last word 5th text line: lacum),
1571L12 (275 copies printed) (last line, centered like 4 lines above it: non Robertum Cœnalem. Last word 5th text line: lacum,),
1571/1573D12 (350 copies printed) (last line, centered like two lines above it: Tarantaise, Moustiers, Montbelial,etc.),
1572/1574F12 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 5 lines above it, in cursive script like the entire text: "Moustiers,& Monbelial,&c.),
1572G12 (pasted over p.12 of a 1570L edition; few copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in Gothic script except for the last two names: Nozoreno, sonderlich beschrieben/ Besihe auch Paradinum und Robertum Cœnalem.),
1572/1573G12 (225 copies printed) (last line, cursive like the entire Burgundy and Savoye text, centered like one line above it: "Tarantaise,Moustiers,vnd Montbelial,etc."),
1573L16 (75 copies printed) (last line, centered like 2 lines above it: last 11 lines in smaller font than the rest. In version A, last 11 lines in cursive script, in non-cursive script in version B: Fabula sit ne, an historia , fides eius apud auctorem.);
1574L16 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm; last line, cursive unlike the entire Ort48A but like the second half of the Ort48B text, centered like 4 lines above it: tiarum nominari,inter Narbonensis Galliæ prouincias.),
1575L16 (100 copies printed) (small page number, 7 mm, last line, cursive like the entire Ort48A and the second half of the Ort48B text, centered like 5 lines above it: tiarum nominari,inter Narbonensis Galliæ prouincias.),
1579LA22 (250 copies printed) (last line: left aligned: pore Augusti Imperatoris. ; second line from the bottom ends: auctores;tem-),
1579LB22 (250 copies printed) (last line: left aligned: pore Augusti Imperatoris. ; second line from the bottom ends: auctores,tem-),
1580/some 1589G22 (300 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it, in Gothic script: hat/haben auch vil Scribenten gemeldet:zur zeit des Keysers Augusti.),
1581F22 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "nibal un Royaume, ainsi qu'on peut lire en Tite Liue & en I. Flores.").

Approximate number of copies printed: 2950.

Remarks: Replaced from 1584LIII onwards by plate Ort 49, where these two maps each obtain a quarter page, and are coupled to Venaissin.

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