Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 0(2)

Title: 1571/1573D, in Gothic script: Theatre,oft Toon:|neel des Aerdt-bo:|dems : waer inne te | siene sijn de Landt:|tafelen van de gehee|le weerelt : met een | corte verclaringe der seluer.
1572/1573G instead: THEATRVM | oder Schawplatz des | erdbodems, warin die | Landtaffel der gant:|zen weldt, mit sambt | aine der selben kurtze | erklarūg zu sehen ist. | "Durch Abrahamum Ortelium".
1572/1574F instead: THEATRE | DE L'VNIVERS, | CONTENANT | LES CARTES | DE TOVT LE MON|DE, AVEC VNE | BRIEVE DECLARA|TION D'ICELLES. | "Par Abraham Ortelius".

Plate size: but appoximately 331 x 371 mm.
Identification number: Ort0(2), VdKANIIIA: 31:1B

Occurrence in Theatrum editions:

1571/1573D, second plate, state 1 (Ort0.2.1) (350 copies printed) (verso text in Gothic lettering starts: M. TULLIVS CICERO. (ends:) "te ouer-dencken". (followed by square woodcut ornament);
1572/1573G, second plate, state 1 (Ort0.2.1) (150 copies printed) (engraved text below image for 1573G: Ihietz mitt vielen neuwen Landtaffeln gemehret.M.CCCCC.LXXIII.); (verso text begins:) "M. TVLLIUS CICERO". (ends:) dencken,geboren. (followed by heart-like woodcut),
1572/1574F, second plate, state 1 (Ort0.2.1) (225 copies printed) (engraved text below image for 1574F: Nouellement augmente de plusieurs nouelles Cartes & Commentaires. 1574.); (on verso text begins: M. TVLLIVS CICERO. (ends:) "uersel". (followed by heart-like woodcut).

States: one state only.

Approximate number of copies printed: 725.

References: Rolf Blankemeijer (2005) Plaat of staat? De titelpagina van het Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. "Caert-Thresoor" 24.3. Blankemeijer only recognises two plates; R.W. Shirley (1996) "The title pages to the Theatrum and Parergon" in M. van den Broecke, P. van der Krogt and P. Meurer (eds.) "Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas", HES Publishers; W. Waterschoot (1979) The title-page of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, "Quaerendo" 9(1):43-68; P. van der Krogt (2003) New Atlantes Neerlandici Vol. IIIA p. 37-40; B. Vuylsteke (1984) "Het Theatrum Orbis Terrarum van Abraham Ortelius (1595). Een studie van de decoratieve elementen en de gehistorieerde voorstellingen", unpublished dissertation, University of Leuven, p. 29-44.

Background on these plates: see Ort0(1).

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