Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 41

Title: L'Isle de | France. | PARISIENSIS | AGRI DE:|SCRIP. [A depiction of Isle de France, the fields of Paris]. (left below title cartouche:) Fr. Guilloterius Bitu:|rix Viu. describebat, | et | CL.V.Petro Pithœo | I.C.dedicabat. [Drawn up by François de la Guilloterus Biturix the Old and dedicated to Petrus Pithœus].(lower left corner:) "Cum Priuilegio decennali | Imp. Reg. et Brab. 1598". [With a privilege of ten years of the royal emperor and Brabant, 1598].

Plate size: 342 x 462 mm
Scale: 1 : 170,000
Identification number: Ort 41 (Koeman/Meurer: 136, Karrow: 1/211, van der Krogt AN: 4300:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

some 1598F26 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: couronne de France.),
1601L25* (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: coronam.),
1602G26 (250 copies printed) (last line, in Gothic script like the entire text, centred like 4 lines above it: genommen.),
1602S26 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: uauan la Corona de toda la Francia.),
1603L26 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: cepere, qui vniuersæ Franciæ coronam.),
1606E25¶ (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: of all "France".),
1608/1612I29 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: luogo d'heridita , & è la corona di tutta la Francia.),
1609/1612/1641S28 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: aquellos, que lleuauan la Corona de toda la Francia.),
1609/1612L28 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, large font: loco accepere, qui vniversæ Franciæ coronam.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 2575.

States: 41.1 as described.
41.2: during or after 1612S, the date was removed.

Cartographic sources: in 1595 Adam la Planche wrote Ortelius (Hessels letter 279) that he had obtained from Pierre Pithou a manuscript map of île de France, attributed to François de la Guillotière (Meurer p. 161).

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