Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 212

Title: DACIARVM, | MOESIARVM:|QVE, VETVS | DESCRIPTIO. [Depiction of ancient Dacia and Moesia] (preceded by:) "Cum Privi:|legijs decen:|nalib. Imp. Reg. et | Cancellarię Brabanticę".[With privileges for ten years from the Imperial and Brabant council]. (followed by ten lines of places of uncertain locations, followed by:) "Ex conatibus Abra:|hami Ortelij. 1595". [From the efforts of Abraham Ortelius]. (Cartouche lower right:) "Pręfuit his Gręcine locis modo Flaccus, et illo | Ripa ferox Istri sub duce tuta fuit. | Hic tenuit Mysas gentes in pace fideli:| Hic arcu fisos terruit ense Getas. | Ovid. 4 de Ponto, Eleg. 9." [Flaccus was once the leader of these Greek places, and there the inaccessible coast of Istria came under his leadership. Here he held the Mysian tribes in faithful peace; Here with bows and swords he frightened the Getae people. Ovidius De Ponto 4, Elegies 9]. (Cartouche upper right:) NOBILISS. DNO IOANNI GEORGIO | A WERDENSTEIN ECCLESIAR. | AVGVSTANAE, ET EYCHSTETEN:|SIS CANONICO, SERENISSIMI | DVCIS BAVARIĘ CONSILIARIO, | SVPREMOQ. BIBLIOTHECARIO | ABRAH. ORTELIVS | AMORIS MNEMOSYNON HOC DD. [Dedicated to the most noble lord Ioannes Georgius of Werdenstein, of the ecclesiastical canon of Augustana and Eychstett, most serene duke of the Bavarian council, supreme librarian, by Abraham Ortelius commemmorating this in love for him]. (Bottom right:) Bosporus Thracius. "Hic locus est | gemini ianua vasta maris. Ovidius." [Thracian Bosporus. This is the place of two doors, opening to vast sea. Ovidius,] (Tristia, Book 1, Chapter 10 line 33.).

Plate size: 352 x 463 mm.
Scale: 1 : 3,000,000
Identification number: Ort 212 (Koeman/Meurer: 30P, Karrow: 1/205, van der Krogt AN: 7710H:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1595L5Addblank (100 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical to 1595L, but without page number; last line, left aligned: lit,Strabonis librum septimum,eiusque Epitomen legat.),
1595LS (500 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1595L5Add but here with page number S; last line, left aligned: lit,Strabonis librum septimum,eiusque Epitomen legat.),
1597G5Addblank (75 copies printed) (identical to 1602G, but here without page number; last line, left aligned, mostly in small Gothic script: der lese "VVilhelmium Stuckium", bey dem solches alles uberflüssig und herzlich beschrieben wirdt.),
1601Lxxiiij (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tabulę regionibus,& gentibus,qui plura etiam velit,Strabonis librum septimum,eiusq.Epitomen legat.),
1602G22 (250 copies printed) (identical to 1597G5Add, but here with page number; last line, left aligned, mostly in small Gothic script: der lese "VVilhelmium Stuckium", bey dem solches alles uberflüssig und herzlich beschrieben wirdt.),
1603Lxxvj, (300 copies printed) (text and page number, but not typesetting, identical to 1609/1612S/L; last line, left aligned: bus,qui plura etiam velit, Strabonis librum septimum,eiusque Epitomen legat.),
1606Exxiiij (300 copies printed) (last line, first text page, full width: in MOESIA and to haue named it DACIA AVRELIANA, after his owne name, which is now that prouince that divideth|the) ; last line second text page, left aligned: Geography, and the Epitome of the same.),
1608/1612Ixxvj (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the whole bottom half of the text page: "ta delli populi di Thracia,delli Misii, Geti, & Daci, & delle regioni di questa tauola & genti,legga il settimo lib.di Strabone,co'l sommario."),
1609/1612Sxxvj (text in Latin) = 1609/1612L xxvj (600 copies printed) (first line: INCOLAS huius regionis Dacię Dacos Gręci vocauere; Getas verņ Romani: testes Plinius, Dion, Stephanus, &; last line, left aligned: bus, qui plura etiam velit, Strabonis librum septimum, eiusque Epitomen legat.),
1618BertiusEEE (200 copies printed) (last line, first text page, right aligned: Mœsię; second text page, left aligned: tomen legat.),
1624LP/1641Sxxx (1025 copies printed) (last line second column first text page, right aligned: suo ; last line second column second text page, left aligned: legat.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 3850.

States: 212.1 as described;
212.2: in 1624LParegon/1641S a number of minor changes occurred. The place name middle left Ad statius coloßas had the second t in statius inserted above the line. In 1624LParergon/1641S the word has been re-engraved regularly. "Ruconi|um" bottom left was changed to "Ruconi:|um". Middle left top "Zirida:|va" was added. "Zingidava" was changed to "Singidava". Central right "Sextantaprista" was changed to "Sextanta Pristis". Middle right "Bizon" was changed to "Bizona".

Cartographic sources: numerous classical authors, specifically Dionos, Stephanus, Horatius, Suidas, Flavius Vopiscus, Plinius and Strabo.

References: L. Gróf (1979) "The Map Collector" 6: 2-11.

Remarks: Bertius bought a number of sheets with this map and included the map in his historical 1618 atlas "Theatrum Geographię Veteris". The text is identical to that of the 1609/1612S/L edition, but in Bertius over two text pages instead of a single text page in the 1609/1612S/L edition.

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