Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 86

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: DANIĘ REGNI TYPVS CORNE:/LIVS AN:/TONIADES/DESCRIP:/SIT Cum Priuilegio [Image of the Kingdom of Denmark, depicted by Cornelius son of Antonius, with privilege] - CIMBRICĘ/CHERSONESI/nunc/IVTIĘ/descriptio, auctore/Marco Iordano. Cum priuilegio decenn./1595. [Depiction of Cimbrica of the Chersonesus, now Jutland, by Marcus Iordanus. With a privilege of ten years .1595.]

Plate size: 345 x 491 mm. Two maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 86 (Koeman/Meurer: 130ab, Karrow: 1/144a, 1/192)

Title 86a: Danię

Scale: 1 : 2,500,000. Size: 345 x 243 mm.

Identification number: Ort 86a (Koeman/Meurer 130a, Karrow 1/144a, van der Krogt AN: 1500:31C).

States: 86a.1 only.

Cartographic sources: central part of Cornelis Anthoniszoon (1499-1557) Caerte van Oostland, Germany map of Sgroth, Scandinavia map of Olaus and possibly Marcus Jordanus' 1552 map of Denmark (Karrow p. 44-45, Meurer p. 104-105).

Title 86b: Cimbricę

Scale: 1 : 1,500,000. Size: 345 x 243 mm.

Identification number: Ort 86b (Koeman/Meurer 130b, Karrow: 1/192, van der Krogt AN: 1550:31C).

States: 86b.1 as described.
86b.2: date removed after 1612.[p]

Cartographic sources: according to Ortelius' Catalogus Auctorum he had a Jutland map drawn by Mark Jorden (1521-1595) (Meurer p. 178-179). The Catalogus also mentions Heinrich Rantzovius as the author of a Denmark map.

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1595L5Addblank (100 copies printed)(text and typesetting identical to 1595L, but without page number; last line, left aligned: hactenus auctor huius tabulę,sua manu adscripserat.),
1595L48 (500 copies printed)(text and typesetting identical to 1595L5Add, but here with page number 48; last line, left aligned: hactenus auctor huius tabulę,sua manu adscripserat.),
1597G5Addblank (75 copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in small Gothic script: Dieß hat der Erfinder gegenwertiger Tafflen/mit eigener hand hinzugeschrieben.),
1598/1610/1613D40 (100 copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: he: Noorden met een schans bevesticht.),
1601L48 (200 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: tur.Hęc hactenus auctor huius tabulę,sua manu adscripserat.),
1602G51 (250 copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: Dies hat der Erfinder gegenwertiger Tafflen mit eigener hand hinzugeschrieben.),
1602S51 (250 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: perador. Todo esto,hasta aqui,escriuio el author con su manu propria.),
1603L51 (300 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: adscripserat.),
1606E51 (300 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: ouerthrew the Emperour and his forces. Thus farre the authour of this chart, hath written of this whole province.),
1608/1612I56 (300 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: Iutij. Queste cose infino ą qui l'autor della presente Tauola la scrisse di sua mano.),
1609/1612/1641S54 (325 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: propria.),
1609/1612L55 (300 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: adscripserat.).

Approximate total number of copies printed: 3000.

Remarks: map Ort 86a, Danię, succeeds Ort 85a. It has now CORNE:/LIVS instead of CORNELI:/VS as in Ort 85a in the cartouche.

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