Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 143

Title: CARINTHIAE DVCATVS, ET GORI:|TIAE PALATINVS, WOLF. LAZIO | "auctore." [The county of Carinthia and the Palatine of Goritia by Wolfgang Lazius]. (Bottom right:) "Sublimitas montium | Strabonis". [The sublime mountains have been noted by Strabo.]- Histrię tabula a Petro Coppo descr. [A map of Histria drawn by Petro Coppo] - ZARAE ET SE:|BENICI DES:|CRIPTIO. [A depiction of Zara and Sibenik]. (Right upper centre:) "Ruinę cuiusdam antiquis|simę structurę, vulgo|Bergane dictę". [Some very ancient ruins are here, commonly called Bergane].

Plate size: 332 x 485 mm; three maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 143

Title 143a: Carinthię

Scale: 1 : 900,000. Size: 332 x 241.
Identification number: Ort 143a (Koeman/Meurer: 67a, Karrow: 1/99, vdKrogtAN: 2725:31).

States: 143a.1 as described;
143a.2: between 1592 and 1595, the hatching of the banks of lakes was extended from about 3 to about 6 mm.

Cartographic sources: Wolfgang Lazius 1561 (Karrow 49/22, p. 342, Meurer p. 183).

Title 143b: Histrię

Scale: 1 : 400,000. Size: 152 x 236.

Identification number: Ort 143b (Koeman/Meurer: 67b, Karrow: 1/100, vdKrogtAN: 7180:31).
States: 143b.1 as described;
143b.2: between 1592 and 1595, the hatching of the coast lines was extended from about 3 to about 6 mm.

Cartographic sources: Petro Coppo made the first version of this map in 1528. A new version was published by Francesco Bindoni and Mapheus Pasini in 1540. In 1569, a new version was published by Fernando Bertelli in Venice (Karrow 21/27.1, p. 247, Meurer p. 130).

Title 143c: Zarę

Scale: 1 : 500,000. Size: 153 x 236 mm.

Identification number: Ort 143c (Koeman/Meurer 67c, Karrow: 1/101, vdKrogtAN: 7645:31).
States: 143c.1 as described;
143c.2: between 1592 and 1595, the hatching of the coast lines was extended from about 3 to about 6 mm.

Cartographic sources: according to Ortelius an anonymous map published in 1570, now attributed to Paulo Forlani (Meurer p. 97). On the authority of Brandmair 1914, p. 78, Karrow attributes this map to Bonifazio Natoli.

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1573D1Add/1573D41.A. (150 copies printed) (last line, centred like one line above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: worden: den aucteur van dese tafele/wyens naem wij niet en kennen/noemt die plaetse Bergane.),
1573G1Add/1573G41.A. (150 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: Nigrum am sexten buch seiner weltbeschreibung, &c.),
1573L1Add41.A. (100 copies printed) (identical to 1573L version A, but with different page number; last line, centred like one line above it, in non-cursive script like the entire section on Zara: Bergane eum vocat. Lege de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographię libro.6.),
1573L(A)55 (40 copies printed) (identical to 1573L1Add, but with different page number; last line, centred like one line above it, in non-cursive script like the entire section on Zara: Bergane eum vocat. Lege de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographię libro.6.),
1573L(B)55 (40 copies printed) (last line, centred like 3 lines above it, in cursive script: "Lege de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum,Geographię libro.6."),
1574F1Add/1574F41.A. (125 copies printed) (last line, centred like 1 line above it: tres Antiquités. L'aucteur de ceste Carte, duquel le nom m'est inconeu, appelle ce lieu Bergane.),
1574L55 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm; last line, centred like two lines above it: Bergane eum vocat. Lege de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographiae libro 6.),
1575L55 (100 copies printed) (small page number, 7 mm; last line, centred like 2 lines above it: tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographię libro.6.),
1579L(A)75 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like one line above it: Bergane eum vocat. Lege de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographię libro 6.),
1579L(B)75 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographię libro 6.),
1580/1589G75 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: Windischen Lands/lise obgemeldten Nigrum im sechsten Buch seiner Erdbeschreibung.),
1581F75 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: beaucoup d'autres Antiquités.L'aucteur de ceste Carte,duquel le nom m'est incogneu, appelle ce lieu Bergane.),
1584L82 (750 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum, Geographię libro 6.),
1587F82 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: beaucoup d'autres Antiquités. L'aucteur de cette Carte, duquel le nom m'est incogneu, appelle ce lieu Bergane.),
1588S82 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: bre se ignora,le llama Bergane. Leeras acerca d'este trecho de Illyris, al mesmo Negro lib. 6. de su Geographia.),
1592L89 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: bulę,Bergane eum vocat.Lege de hoc tractu Illyridis eundem Nigrum,Geographię libro 6.),
1595L94 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: templum,cuius calx temperaretur vino Maluatico.quod factum fuit.),
1598F95 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: lieu Bergane.),
1601L94 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: plum,cuius calx temperaretur vino Maluatico.quod factum fuit.),
1602G97 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like most of the text: ten Nigrum im sechsten Buch seiner Erdbeschreibung.),
1602S97 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tico, que es Maluizia,lo que fue hecho.),
1603L97 (300 copies printed) (text, but not typesetting and pagenumber, identical with 1609/1612L; last line, left aligned: nautę vouere se constructuros templum,cuius calx temperaretur vino Maluuatico. quod factum fuit.),
1606E94 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: dingly performed.),
1608/1612I101 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: detto Maluasia,come auenne.),
1609/1612L102 (300 copies printed) (text, but not typesetting and page number, identical with 1603L; last line, left aligned: nautę vouere se constructuros templum,cuius calx temperaretur vino Maluuatico. quod factum fuit.),
1609/1612/1641S102 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: que fue hecho.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 7200.

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