Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 172

Title: PALESTINAE SIVE | TOTIVS TERRAE PRO:|MISSIONIS NOVA | DESCRIPTIO AVC:|TORE TILEMANNO | STELLA SIGENENSI. [A new representation of Palestine or all the promised land by Tileman Stella from Siena] (Left below title cartouche:) "Cum priuilegio". [With privilege]. ( Cartouche with 14 lines of text in upper left:) "Dominus Deus | tuus introducet te in | terram bonam, terram ri:|vorum aquarum et fontium, | in cuius campis & montibus | erumpunt fluviorum abyssi. Ter:|ram frumenti, ordei, ac vinearum, | in qua ficus & malogranata | & oliveta nascuntur terram | olei ac mellis. Ubi absque | ulla penuria comedes pa:|nem tuum, & rerum | omnium abundantia | perfrueris".) [The Lord your God will lead you to the good land, the land with rivers, waters and springs, in whose fields and mountains rivers with steep banks flow. It is a land with corn, barley and vineyards, in which fig trees, pomegranates and olives grow, and it yields olive oil and honey. There is no lack of food and you will eat your bread, and you will enjoy an abundance of all things].

Plate size: 342 x 452 mm
Scale: 1 : 1,500,000
Identification number: Ort 172 (not in Koeman, Meurer or Karrow, vdKrogtAN: 8150:31B).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1595LZ (500 copies printed) (last line, first text page, left aligned, italic: "mam,Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib.6.&7.&nuper septem libris Adamus Reisnerus: Item Christianus Adribonius".),
1598/1610/1613D86 (100 copies printed) (last line, in Gothic script like the entire text, centred like 4 lines above it: als veel historien ghetuyghen.),
1601Lij (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "mam, Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib.6.& 7. & nuper septem libris Adamus Reisnerus; Item Christianus Adrichomius".),
1602G5 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: kriege:vnnd newlich Adamus Reyßnerus in syben gantzen Büchern.),
1603Lij (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like most of the text: "Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib.6.& 7. & nuper septem libris Adamus Reinerus: Item Christianus Adrichomius". : 5th line from bottom ends: "est, in"),
1606Eij (300 copies printed) (last line, italic like most of the text, left aligned: "the Metropolitain city of all that whole kingdome". ; last line second text page: "new bookes, and" Christianus Adrichomus "haue described" Ierusalem, "the chiefe city of" Palæstina. ),
1608/1612Iij (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "Gioseffo della guerra Giudaica nel 6.& 7. lib. & nouellamente in sette libri Adamo Reisnero,& anco Christiano Adricomio diffusamente trattano".),
1609/1612Sij (300 copies printed) (text in Latin, see next),
1609/1612Lij (300 copies printed) (text and page number, but not typesetting, identical to 1603L; last line, left aligned, in cursive script: "Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib.6.&7. & nuper septem libris Adamus Reinerus: Item Christianus Adrichomius". ; 5th line from bottom ends: "est,"),
Bertius 1619KKK (200 copies printed) (last line, first text page, right aligned: Taphnis,; last line second text page, left aligned: Adamus Reinerus: Item Christianus Adrochomius.),
1624P = 1641Sij (1025 copies printed) (in Latin, last line second column first text page: di 9. Phitom , Exod. 1. ciuitas frumentaria Ægypti/ad ; last line second column second text page: stianus Adrichomius.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 3775.

States: 172.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Stella 1552, 1557 (Karrow 72/5, p. 502-503, Meurer p. 244-245).

Reference: Tooley 1978 "The Map Collector" 3 p. 28-31.

Remarks: From 1595L onwards, this successor of plate Ort 171 (which has 4 ships instead of the 3 on this plate, and "SIGENENSI" instead of "SIGENENS" in the cartouche) moves to the Parergon.
*Bertius bought a number of sheets of this map and included it in his historical 1619 atlas Theatrum Geographiæ Veteris.

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