Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 53

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: BVRGVNDIĆ/DVCATVS. [The Duchy of Burgundy] - BVRGVNDIĆ/COMITATVS/auctore/Dńo Ferdinando Lannoyo [The County of Burgundy by Mr. Ferdinandus Lannoyus] Hoc antrum hyeme/feruet, ćstate autem/frigore riget. (D2) [In winter this cave is hot, but in summer it freezes because of the cold.] Iougne. Hic vectigal/exigitur, rerum quć alio/exportantur. (E2) [Here taxes are levied on goods that are exported.]

Plate size: 360 x 502 mm. Two maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 53 (Koeman/Meurer: 142ab, not in Karrow).

Title 53a: Burgundić Ducatus

Scale: 1 : 350,000.

Size: 360 x 250 mm.

Identification number: Ort 53a (Koeman/Meurer: 142a, van der Krogt AN: 4870:31B).

States: 53a.1 as described.
53a.2: between 1612 and 1641, the date 1597 was removed from the cartouche.

Cartographic sources: a source of this plate has not been identified with certainty. In contents, the map resembles Mercator's 1585 map of Burgundy. The Catalogus Auctorum in the Theatrum mentions Etienne Tabourot's Burgundy as not yet having appeared (Meurer p. 88-89).

Title 53b: Burgundić Comitatus

Scale: 1 : 350,000.

Size: 360 x 246 mm.

Identification number: Ort 53b (Koeman/Meurer: 142b, van der Krogt AN: 4880:31B).

States: 53b.1 as described;
53b.2: between 1612 and 1641, on the upper right side of the plate three horizontal lines were added where apparently the plate had been empty before.

Cartographic sources: Ferdinand de Lannoy made a map of Burgundy in 1563 for which he obtained a privilege, but which was subsequently suppressed by the Spaniards for political reasons. Ortelius was familiar with this map as early as 1570 (Karrow 48/2.1, p. 332-333; Meurer p. 180).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1602S34,35 (250 copies printed) (last line first text page, right aligned: adonde; last line second text page, left aligned: gyrico de Nazario dedicado al Emperador Constantino.),
few if any 1608/1612I38 (25 copies printed?),
few 1609/1612S36 (25 copies printed?) (text, but not typesetting identical with 1641S; last line first text page, right aligned: adonde ; last line second text page, left aligned: gyrico de Nazario dedicado al Emperador Constantino.),
very few 1609/1612L37 (25 copies printed?),
1641S36 (25 copies printed?) (text, but not typesetting identical with 1609/1612S; last line first text page, right aligned: Rosne ; last line second text page, left aligned: cez. De los Ćduos antiguos lea el Panegyrico de Nazario dedicado al Emperador Constantino.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 350.

Remarks: see also plates Ort 51, Ort 52 and Ort 54. The text below was combined from earlier texts of Ort 52 and Ort 54.

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