Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 43

Title: Blaisois. | BLESIENSIS | TERRITORII | "hanc tabulam, describe:|bat Ioannes Temporius | Blesis, anno Mesiæ nati | 1592. epoche Christia:|næ 1590. Mundi 5610". [Ioannes Temporius of Blois has drawn up this map of Blois, the territory of Blois in the year after the birth of the Messias 1592, in the Christian era 1590. Of the world 5610]. [Text in lower left corner:] "Le Blaisois contient en longitu:|de d'Occident en Orient depuis | S. Ouin iusques à Brinon 25. | lieuez en latitude de l'Equateur | vers le Nord, depuis Chasteauroux | iusques à Rabestan 40 lieues". [Blaisois comprises in longitude from West to East from S. Ouin to Brinon 25 miles and in latitude from the equator Northwards from Châteauroux to Rabestan 40 miles] [and below this:] "La cincture de la terre est divisee en 360. | degres, a chascun degre donnons 25 lieues. | Toute la terre contient 9000 lieues". [The equator of the earth is divided into 360 degrees, so each degree is 25 miles. The entire earth therefore comprises 9000 miles.] LEMOVICVM TOTIVS ET CONFINIVM PROVINCIARVM QVANTVM AD DIOE:|CESIM LEMOVICENSEM SPECTANT NOVISSIMA ET FIDISSIMA DESCRIPTIO. [A very recent and true depiction of all Limousin and the borders of these provinces as can be seen in the Limousin diocese]. (Small cartouche upper right:) "Io. Fayanus M.L. | describebat". [Depicted by Ioannes Fayanus]. (Cartouche along bottom: poem on the Greeks of 2 x 3 lines by IOACHIM BLANCHON, first column:) "Homere Demosthene et Archimede ensemble | Lymoges á nourry óu la Vertu saßemble, | Muret, Dorat, Fayen, trois excellens esprits": (second column:) "Muret son Demosthene et Dorat son Homere. | Fayen son Archimede ayant sa ville Mere | Sa Province et son Plan heureusement compris. | IOACHIN BLANCHON". [Homerus, Demosthenes and Archimedes have together been raised by Limoges, where virtue assembles, in the guise of Muret, Dorat and Fayen, three excellent minds. Muret is its Demosthenes, Dorat is its Homerus, and Fayen is its Archimedes, having its city as their mother, fortunately comprised in this province and plan. By IOACHIN BLANCHON"].

Plate size: 339 x 472 mm. Two maps on one plate.

Identification number: Ort 43

Title 43a: Blaisois

Scale: 1 : 600,000. Size: 339 x 221 mm.

Identification number: Ort 43a (Koeman/Meurer: 138a, Karrow: 1/213, van der Krogt AN: 4370:31).

States: 43a.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Jean du Temps (born in 1555) published a map of Blois in the "Théatre François" of Bouguereau in 1594, which was used by Ortelius (Meurer p. 254).

Title 43b: Lemovicum

Scale: 1 : 800,000. Size: 309 x 234 mm.

Identification number: Ort 43b (Koeman/Meurer: 138b, Karrow: 1/196, van der Krogt AN: 4560:31).

States: 43b.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Jean Fayen (1530-1616), a physician published a map of Limousin in the "Théatre Francois" of Bouguereau in 1594, which was used by Ortelius (Meurer p. 143).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1598F30 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: qu'ils appellerent la Bourse anciennement.&c. Tout cecy de Belleforest.),
1601L25*** (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: rum concilium,quam Bursam vulgò vocant. Hæc, & plura de hac regione,Belleforestius.),
1602G28 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, first word in Gothic script like the rest of the text, second word not in Gothic, left aligned: erzehlet Belleforestius.),
1602S28 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tratto de los mercaderes,al qual el vulgo llama la Boursa. Todo esto es de Belforestio.),
1603L28 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: quam Bursam vulgò vocant. Hæc, & plura de hac regione, Belleforstius.),
1606E25¶¶¶ (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: call The Burse. Thus much and more, concerning this region, writeth "Belleforest".),
1608/1612I31 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: dice il Belleforesto.),
1609/1612/1641S30 (325 copies printed) (last line, full width: causas,y el tratto de los mercaderes,al qual el vulgo llama la Boursa. Todo esto es de Belforestio.),
1609/1612L30 (300 copies printed) (last line, full width: lum in caussis mercatorû concilium,quam Bursam vulgò vocant.Hæc,& plura de hac regione,Belleforestius.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 2425.

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