Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 79

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: HOLLANDIĆ ANTI:/QVORVM CATTHORVM/SEDIS NOVA DESCRIP:/TIO, AVCTORE IACO:/BO A DAVENTRIA [A new depiction of Holland, once the seat of the Caths, by Jacobus van Deventer].

Plate size: 354 x 482 mm
Scale: 1 : 400,000
Identification number: Ort 79 (Koeman/Meurer: 19, Karrow: 1/27, van der Krogt AN: 3400:31, Blonk 11.)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1570LAC19 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like two lines above it: Hortensij Montfortij. ; second line from bottom: continetur ... Lamberti),
1570LB19 (100 copies rpinted) (last line, centered like two lines above it: Hortensij Montfortij. ; second line from bottom: quć ... Lamberti),
1571L19 (275 copies printed) (last line, centered like two lines above it: Lamberti Hortensij Montfortij.),
1571/1573D19 (350 copies printed) (last line, in cursive script, centered like one line above it: "ende heeft de Bischop alleen de gheestelycke Jurisdictie daer in gehouden".)
1572/1574F19 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 2 lines above it: retenu que la jurisdiction Spirituelle en icelle.),
1572G10 (pasted over p.19 of a 1570L edition; few copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in Gothic script except for one name: fen ist/Lise Lamberti Hortensij Montfortij historiam.),
1572/1573G19 (225 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it: diction vnd gerechtigkeit darin behalten.),
1573L23 (75 copies printed) (Version A has text on verso which is only about half of the text found in version B. Version A last line in non-cursive script, centered like 2 lines above it: Historiam Lamberti Hortensij Montfortij. Version B last line, in cursive script like the entire text: "dictione est,& hac Tabula etiam continetur, consule historiam Lamberti Hortensii Montfortij."),
1574L23 (175 copies printed) (entire text in cursive script; large page number, 11 mm; last line, centered like the 2 lines above it: dictione est,& hac Tabula etiam continetur, consule historiam Lamberte Hortensis Montfortij.),
1575L23 (100 copies printed) (entire text in non-cursive script; small page number, 7 mm; last line, centered like the 2 lines above it: dictione est,& hac Tabula etiam continetur, consule historiam Lamberte Hortensis Montfortij.),
1579LA34 (250 copies printed) (last line, centered like two lines above it: etiam continetur, consule historiam Lamberti Hortensi Monfortij.),
1579LB34 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: ctione ets,& hac tabula etiam continetur,consule historiam Lamberti Hortensij Monfortij.),
1580/1589G34 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, not in Gothic in contrast to most of this text, left aligned: Montfortij.),
1581F34 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: icelle.),
1584L40 (750 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Lamberti Hortensij Monfortij.),
1587F40 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tuelle en icelle.),
1588S40 (300 copies printed) (last line first text page, right aligned: WESPA ; last line second text page, centered like 6 lines above it: Hortensio Montforcio.),
1592L42 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script: "Hortensij Monfortij".),
1595L44 (500 copies printed) (4th line from the bottom ends: ibi- ; last line, left aligned: riam Lamberti Hśrtensij Montfortij.),
1598/1610/1613D36 (100 copies printed) (last line, first text page, right aligned, Gothic script: of twaelf),
1598F47 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Spirituelle en icelle.),
1601L44 (200 copies printed) (4th line from the bottom ends: marmorea- ; last line, left aligned: riam Lamberti Hortensij Monfortij.),
1602G47 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: ingleich auch in dieser Tafel vorgestellt wirt/besuche die histori Lamberti Hortensij Montfortij.),
1602S47 (250 copies printed) (last line first text page, right aligned: PVRME-; last line second text page, left aligned: Holanda, y se contiene tambien en esta tabla, ouedes veer a Lamberto Hortensio Montforcio.),
1603blank (Vri1) the copy consulted from UBA does not have this map but the CDH one, with no text or page number,
1603L47 ((300 copies printed) last line, left aligned: Lamberti Hortensij Monfortij.),
1606E47 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, cursive unlike the rest of the text: "tensius Monfortius".),
1608/1612I52 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: ria di Lamberto Hortensio da Monforte.),
1609/1612/1641S50 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: landa,y se contiene tambien en esta tabla,puedes veer a Lamberto Hortensio Montforcio.),
1609/1612L51 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Lamberti Hortensij Monfortij.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 8175.

States: 79.1 above.
79.2: from 1592L onwards, has stippled sea rather than waves. However, the waves remain faintly visible in this stippled second state (see two figs. p.4 The Map Collector 36, 1986). Ships have been reworked after this polishing procedure.
79.3: from 1598F onwards, has "TYS/TER/BANT" right of Tiel.
79.4: in 1641S, lake Beemster has been reclaimed, and some schematic road indications appear.

Cartographic sources: Jacob van Deventer abt. 1500-1575 (see Meurer p. 138, Karrow 25/4 p. 142-158, Donkersloot-Vrij p. 128)

References: Blonk describes this map in detail in "The Map of Holland in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum": p. 291-302. Also: H.A.M. van der Heijden "Ortelius and the Netherlands", p. 271-290 in: M. van den Broecke, P. van der Krogt and P. Meurer (eds.) "Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas", HES Publishers, 1998. Blonk also discusses it in Blonk (2000), Hollandić Comitatus, p. 106-113.

Remarks: Note the numerous lakes which were reclaimed in the 17th century.

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