Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 97

© Marcel van den Broecke © Title: BRANDEBVRGENSIS MARCHÆ DESCRIPTIO [A depiction of the marquisette of Brandenburg](cartouche lower left:) Marchionatus/hic primum erectus fuit/ab Henrico I. Imperatore,/ao 923. fuitque eius primus/marchio nomine Henricus./Olim enim sub ducibus/Saxoniæ erat M.CCCCC.LXXXVIII [This marquisette was first established by Henricus I the Emperor in the year 923. The marquisette first went under his name Henricus. Once it came under the dukes of Saxony 1588].

Plate size: 359 x 501 mm
Scale: 1 : 300,000
Identification number: Ort 97 (Koeman/Meurer: 118, K: 1/166, van der Krogt AN: 2170:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1590L4Add blank (100 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical to 1592L, but here without page number; last line, left aligned: ex libello Germanico Wolfgangi Iobsti. Lector,si lubet, adde his quæ apud Irenicum & Munsterum sunt.),
1591G4Addblank (75 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it, mostly in Gothic script: "Munstero" zufinden/hinzu setzen.),
1592L53 (525 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1590L4Add, but here with page number 53; last line, left aligned: ex libello Germanico Wolfgangi Iobsti. Lector,si lubet, adde his quæ apud Irenicum & Munsterum sunt.),
1595L56 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: edidit Dauid Chytræus in suo Saxoniæ chronico.),
1598/1610/1613D45 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: mach daer by voeghen "Trenicum" ende "Munsterum"),
1598F58 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: qu'ont escrit Irenie & Munster,& aussi à Dauid Chytreus en son histoire de Saxe.),
1601L56 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: uid Chytræus in suo Saxoniæ chronico.),
1602G59 (250 copies printed) (last line, centered like 3 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: Munstero zufinden/hinzu gesetzt.),
1602S59 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: echó a luz Dauid Cytræo, en su Chronico de Saxonia.),
1603L59 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Lector,si lubet,adde his quæ apud Irenicum & Munsterum sunt.& quæ nuper edidit Dauid Chytræus in suo Saxoniæ chronico.),
1606E56 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: storie of "axony".),
1608/1612I64 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: te ha dato in luce il Chitreo nella sua Cronica di Sassonia.),
1609/1612/1641S62 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: y Munstero,y con esso lo que, a estos passados echó a luz Dauid Cytræo, en su Chronico de Saxonia.),
1609/1612L56 or mostly 63(300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: træus in suo Saxoniæ chronico.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 4050

States: 97.1 only.

Cartographic sources: the astronomer Elias Cameriarus (abt. 1530-1581) made a single sheet map of Brandenburg, used by Mercator for his 1585 Germaniæ tabulæ geographicæ. That map formed the basis for the present map of Brandenburg (Meurer p. 124-125).

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