Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 50

Title: Lorraine. | LOTHARIN:|GIAE NOVA | DESCRIPTIO. 1587. [A new representation of Lotharingia, Lorraine 1587] (Cartouche bottom right corner:) "Cum Priuilegio decennali" [With a privilege for ten years] (Below cartouche:) "Ab. Ortelius excudebat." [Published by Abraham Ortelius].

Plate size: 343 x 504 mm
Scale: 1 : 400,000
Identification number: Ort 50 (Koeman/Meurer: 122, Karrow: 1/165, van der Krogt AN: 4250:31).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1590L4Addblank (100 copies printed) (identical in text and typesetting with 1592L but here without page number; last line, left aligned, in cursive script: "quoque in nostro Itinerario quĉdam huius regionis scitu fortè non indigna euulgauimus".),
1591G4Addblank (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: bungh der Wegfart und Wanderungh ahn dag bracht.),
1592L28 (525 copies printed) (text and typesetting identical with 1590L4Add, but here with page number 28; last line, left aligned, in cursive script: "quoque in nostro Itinerario quĉdam huius regionis scitu fortè non indigna euulgauimus".),
1595L30 (500 copies printed) (last line, full width: ciscus Roseus. Nos quoque in nostro Itinerario quĉdam huius regionis scitu fortè non indigna euulgauimus.),
1598/1610/1613D24 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, not in Gothic script like the lines above it: Symphorianus),
1598F25 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: gnes de memoire.),
1601L30 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Roseus. Nos quoque in nostro Itinerario quĉdam huius regionis scitu fortè non indigna euulgauimus.),
1602G33 or rarely 17 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire page: Wegfart vnd Wanderungh ahn dag bracht.),
1602S33 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: y lugares de esta Region.),
1603blank (Vri1) no text or page number,
1603L33 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Roseus. Nos quoque in nostro Itinerario quĉdam huius regionis scitu fortè non indigna euulgauimus.),
1606E30 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: selfe in mine "Itinerarium", or Iournall, haue published some things of this Region not vnwoorthie the remembrance.),
1608/1612I36 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: ancora nel Viaggio nostro habbiamo publicato alcune cose di lei forse non indegne di notitia.),
1609/1612L35 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Nos quoque in nostro Itinerario quĉdam huius regionis scitu fortè non indigna euulgauimus.),
1609/1612S35 (300 copies printed) (text but not typesetting identical with 1641S; last line, left aligned: y lugares de esta Region.),
1641S35 (25 copies printed) (text, but not typesetting identical with 1609/1612S; last line, left aligned: res de esta Region.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 4050.

States: 50.1 as above
50.2: date erased after 1612.

Cartographic sources: this map is a compilation of the maps Lotharingiĉ Ducatus Pars Septentrionalis and Lotharingiĉ Ducatus Pars Meridionalis from Mercator's atlas Galliĉ tabulĉ Geographicĉ which appeared in 1585 (Meurer p. 37). Ortelius mentions in his Catalogus Auctorum a Johan Scillius from Antwerp as the designer of a Lorraine map. From Hessels letter 55 it is clear that Ortelius had been looking for a Lorraine map as early as 1575.

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