Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 145

Title: SCHLAVONIAE, CROATIAE, CARNIAE, ISTRIAE, BOSNIAE FINITIMARVMQVE | REGIONVM NOVA DESCRIPTIO, AVCTORE AVGVSTINO HIRSVOGELIO. [A new representation of Sclavonia, Croatia, Carnia, Istria, Bosnia and their regional borders, by Augustinus Hirschvogel] (lower right:) "Cum priuilegio." [With privilege].

Plate size: 337 x 463 mm
Scale: 1 : 600,000
Identification number: Ort 145 (Koeman/Meurer: 41, Karrow: 1/61, vdKrogtAN: 7601:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1570L(AB)41 (200 copies printed) (one line indented before initial F; first text line ends: Regio-; last line, centred like 3 lines above it: frequentissimus vsus est.),
1570L(C)41 (125 copies printed) (two lines indented before initial F; first text line ends: Regio-; last line, centred like 3 lines above it: frequentissimus vsus est.),
1571L41 (275 copies printed) (first text line ends: Regio: ; last line, centred like 3 lines above it: frequentissimus vsus est.),
not in 1571/1573D
1572G41Koler (pasted over p.41 of a 1570L edition; few copies printed)(last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: sehr gebreuchlich ist.),
1572/1573G41 (225 copies printed) (last line, italic like the entire text, centred like 2 lines above it: "gevbt vnd gebraucht wiert."),
1572/1574F41 (225 copies printed) (last line, centred like 1 line above it: ques à Constantinople, estant fort frequentée à la Cour de l'Empereur.),
not in 1573L(AB),
not in 1574L,
not in 1575L,
1579L(A)74 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: duxi. Vale.)
1579L(B)74 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: datis duxi. Vale.)
1580/1589G74 (350 copies printed) (last line, centred like 5 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: hinzu thue.),
1581F73 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: à Constantinople,estant fort frequentée à la Cour de l'Empereur.),
1584L81 (750 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: candidatis duxi.),
1587F81 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: pendice de ce liure.),
1588S81 (300 copies printed) (last line, centred like 4 lines above it: por cosa impertinente.),
1592L88 (525 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: candidatis duxi.),
1595L93 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: gratum Geographiæ candidatis duxi.),
1598F93 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: jusque à Constantinople,estant fort frequentée à la Cour de l'Empereur.),
1598D(not in 1610/1613D)65 (100 copies printed) (last line, centred like five lines above it, italic except for names: "gheuseert wordt".),
1601L92 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Turcos frequentissimus vsus sit.),
1602G95 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 5 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: hinzu thue.),
1602S96 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: dirla aquipor cosa impertinente.),
1603L96 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: candidatis duxi.),
1606E92 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: so that it is also much vsed amongst the Turkes.),
1608/1612I103 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: à riceuere.).
1609/1612L104 (300 copies printed) (last line: ingratum Geographiæ candidatis duxi.).
1609/1612/1641S104 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: nente.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 8175.

States: 145.1 above.
145.2: From 1579 onwards, beginning of strip title cartouche receives superimposed hatching with vertical lines over the original oblique lines.
145.2: From 1587 onwards hatch lines appear on the entire surface of lakes on the left side of the map.
145.3: From 1595L onwards, strong shading on sail of ship, Adriatic sea stippled in horizontal wedge shape dots; immediate surroundings of "Scala Miliarum" stippled, strong shading on "Danubius Fl." and "Sava fluv.". Mountain range above strip title cartouche shaded.
Minor plate damage at the middle left side margin from 1587F onwards, now no longer showing the plate edge, getting worse and extending to 25 mm in 1609/1612. Similar plate damage of top right corner from 1571L onwards, extending to 18 mm by 1609/1612L. Furthermore, the capital T in AVGVSTINO in the bottom line of the cartouche started to crack in 1595. This crack lengthened and by 1609/1612 it connected the I of BOSNIAE in the first cartouche line via the T just mentioned to the edge of the plate, altogether about 22 mm.

Cartographic sources: Hirschvogel (1552, 1565), who drew on Lazarus-Ziegler-Apian (Karrow 40/9, p. 299-300, Meurer p. 167).

References: Gròf (1979) "The Map Collector" 6:2-11; (1992) Gròf "Cartographica Hungarica" 1: 26-36.

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