Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 158

Title: POME:|RANIAE,/WANDALI:|CAE REGIO:|NIS, TYP. "Priuilegio". [A map of Pommern, a part of Wandalica, with privilege]. (Top right:) Pomerella "vltra citraque Vistulam olim Inferioris Pomeranić | principum hćreditaria fuit prouincia, etiam longč post Christianis:|mum. Post obitum autem eorum principum, partem Poloni & | Ordo Prussić, partem Marchiones occupauerunt". [Pomerella beyond and on the other side of the Vistula, once a province of Lower Pomerania, had heredetary rulers although converted to Christianity a long time before that. But after the decease of their rulers, they occupied part of the Polish and Prussian area, and part of the Marquisate.] - LIVONI:|AE NOVA | DESCRIP:|TIO, | "Joanne Portantio | auctore." [A new depiction of Livonia by Ioannes Portantius]. (Midleft:) "Scopuli nauigantibus | formidabiles". [Cliffs highly threatening for sailors]. (Lower left corner:) "Hic Succinum | colligitur". [Here amber is collected] (Midleft:) "Rigisch bodem; | maxima hic pro:|funditas maris est, | et periculosißimus | locus". [The Riga sea floor; here the sea is of very great depth, and it is a most dangerous place]. (Centre:) "Domes nest, petra | est sub aquis, longe | se in mare ex:|tendens". [Domes nest, where there is a cliff beneath the water which extends far into the sea.] (Top right:) "Narva Ruthenorum, quibus Juanogro | da vocatur, Mosco paret" [Narva of the Rutheni, by whom it is called Juanograd, subject to Moscovia]. (Top right:) "Hic lacus vario piscium genere a:|bundat. Porrigitur in longitudi:|nem ad CCCLX. stadia". [This lake abounds with various kinds of fish. It extends in length for 360 stadia.] - DVCATVS OSWIECZENSIS, ET | ZATORIENSIS, DESCRIPTIO [A depiction of the duchy of Auschwitz and Zator]. (Top left:) Sta.[nislav] Por.[ebski] | pinxit. [Drawn by Stanislav Porebski].

Plate size: 384 x 497 mm; three maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 158

Title 158a: Pomerania

Scale: 1 : 300,000. Size: 160 x 497 mm.

Identification number: 158a (Koeman/Meurer: 68a, Karrow: 1/102, vdKrogtAN: 2190:31).

States: 158a.1 as described.
158a.2: in 1588, stippling was added in the sea around Codanus sinus and Balticum Mare.

Cartographic sources: Münster 1550, based on Peter Artopćus (Karrow 58/170, p. 432, Meurer p. 205).

Title 158b: Livonia

Scale: 1 : 350,000. Size: 218 x 245 mm.

Identification number: 158b (Koeman/Meurer: 68b, Karrow: 1/103, vdKrogtAN: 1710:31).

States: 158b.1 as described.
158b.2: stippling added in the sea around Gros/Klein Karlse cliffs, the Scala Milliarium and the lake Curisch Haff between 1587 and 1588.
158b.3: a number of pace names were altered between 1595 and 1598, viz.: "Vpzul -> Vclzul", "Trenden ->Treyden", "Teckaten - Treckaten", WALMER ->WOLMER, "Buitnick -> Bortnick, Rugen -> Royen, Pebalgi -> Tebalgi, Karijhaus-Karkhaus, Pardaw-Parnaw".

Cartographic sources: Johannes Portantius, a contemporary of Ortelius who also lived in Antwerp provided information for this map. Possibly, this map goes back to the lost Livonia maps by Marcus Ambrosius and Caspar Henneberger (Meurer p. 218).

158c Oswieczens

Scale: 1 : 400,000. Size: 218 x 246 mm.

Identification number: Ort 158c (Koeman/Meurer: 68c, Karrow: 1/104, vdKrogtAN: 1940:31).

States: 158c.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Stanislaw Porebski 1563, published by Bertelli in Venice (Meurer p. 217-218). Brandmair calls this source Stanislaus Porinski.

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1573D1Add/1573D44A (150 copies printed) (last line, in Gothic script like the entire text, centred: ghescheyden hadde gheweest.Dit seyt Cromerus in zijn Chronijcke van Polen.),
1573G1Add/1573G44.A. (150 copies printed) (last line, centred like one line above it: merus in seiner Polonischer Chronick anzeigett.),
1573L1Add44.A. (100 copies printed) (last line, centred like one line above it, in cursive script like the entire section on Oswiecz & Livonia: "sesimum ferč annum ad corpus& compagem Polonić rediit.Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico".),
1573L(A)59 (40 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it, in cursive script: "tesimum ferč annum ad corpus & compagem Polonić rediit.Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico". ;
1573L(B)59 (40 copies printed) (last line, centred like 4 lines above it, in non-cursive script: pagem Polonić rediit.Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1574F1Add/1574F44A (125 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire Oswiecz section: "Cromerus en sa Chronique de Polongne dit cici."),
1574L59 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm; last line, centred and italic like two lines above it: testimum ferč annum ad corpus & compagem Polonić rediit.Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1575L59 (100 copies printed) (small page number, 7 mm; last line, centred and italic like two lines above it: "ad corpus & compagem Polonić rediit.Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico".),
1579L(A)80 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like one line above it, in cursive script like the entire Oswieczim section: "tesimum ferč annum ad corpus& compagem Polonić rediit.Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico".),
1579L(B)80 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1580/1589G80 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: reich Polen wider einuerleibt worden. Diß schreibt Cromerus in seiner Chronick über Polen.),
1581F80 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned but not extending under big woodcut capital C above it: l'alliance de Polongne. Cromerus en sa Chronique de Polongne dit cecy.),
1584L88 (750 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1587F88 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned but not extending under big woodcut capital C above it: l'alliance de Polongue. Cromerus en sa Chronique de Polonge dit cecy.),
1588S88 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: uio al cuerpo y vnion de Polonia: Author d'esto es Cromero en su Coronica de Polonia.),
1592L95 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Auctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1595L100 (500 copies printed) (10th line from the top ends: coloris. ; last line, left aligned: Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1598F101 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned but not extending under big woodcut capital C above it: l'alliance de Polongne. Cromerus en sa Chronique de Polongne dit cecy.),
1598/1610/1613D70 (100 copies printed) (last line, in Gothic script except for the name, left aligned: ghescheyden hadde geweest. Dit seyt "Cromerus" in zijn Cronijcke van Polen.),
1601L100 (200 copies printed) (10th line from the top ends: Hinc ; last line, left aligned: Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1602G103 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: dem königreich Polen wider einuerleibt worden.Diß schreibt Cromerus in seiner Chronick vber Polen.),
1602S103 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: vnion de Polonia: Author d'esto es Cromero en su Coronica de Polonia.),
1603L103 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: ctor Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1606E100 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: "Poland" testifieth.),
1608/1612I112 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tione della Polonia,si come recita il Cromero nella sua Cronica di Polonia.),
1609/1612L113 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Cromerus in suo Polonić Chronico.),
1609/1612/1641S113 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: al cuerpo y vnion de Polonia: Author d'esto es Cromero en su Coronica de Polonia.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 7300.

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