Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 54

Title: BVRGVN:|DIAE IN:|FERIORIS, | QVÆ DVCA:|TVS NOMI:|NE CENSE:| TVR, DES. | 1584. [A representation of lower Burgundy, regarded as a duchy. 1584]. (Cartouche bottom left:) "CVM PRIUILEGIO IM:|PERIALI ET BELGICO | AD DECENNIVM" [With an imperial and Belgian privilege for ten years].

Plate size: 375 x 455 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 54 (Koeman/Meurer: 96, Karrow: 1/142, van der Krogt AN: 4870:31A).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1584L3Addblank (100 copies printed) (identical to 1584L, but here without page number; last line, full width: gundis scripsere ex professo, Paradinus,& Nicolaus Vignierius latinè, & Petrus Saniulianus gallicè.),
1584L28 750 copies printed) (identical with 1584L3Add, but here with page number; last line, full width: gundis scripsere professo, Paradinus,& Nicolaus Vignierius latinè, & Petrus Saniulianus gallicè.),
1584G3Add18 in upper right corner (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: auff Frantzösisch.),
1585F3Add5 (75 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Saint Iulien en a escrit en François.),
1587F28 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: & Pierre de Saint Iulien en a escrit en François.),
1588S28 (300 copies printed) (last line, centred like 3 lines above it: Latin : y Pedro SantIulian en Francez.),
1592L30 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: vide Nazarij Panegyricum, Constantino Imp.dictum.),
1595L32 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: veteribus Æduis, vide Nazarij panegyricum Constantino Imp.dictum. 7th line from the top ends: Parlamen-),
1598F33 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: des Bourgongnons,& Pierre de Saint Iulien en a escrit en François.),
1601L32 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: vide Nazarij panegyricum Constantino Imp. dictum. 7th line from the top ends: loquuntur, Parlamentum.),
1602G35 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, except for the first word in Gothic script like the entire text: iulianus auff Französisch.),
1603L35 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Æduis, vide Nazarij panegyricum Constantino Imp. dictum. 7th line from the top ends: loquuntur,Parliamentum.),
1606E32 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: gyricke pronounced before "Constantine" the Emperour.),
1608/1612I38 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: stantino Imperatore.),
1609/1612L37 (300 copies printed)(last line, left aligned: Æduis, vide Nazarij panegyricum Constantino Imp. dictum. 7th line from the top ends: loquûtur,Parlamentum.)(300 copies printed).

States: 54.1. only.

Approximate number of copies printed: 5050.

Cartographic sources: a definite source of this map has not been identified with certainty. In contents, the map resembles Mercator's 1585 map of Burgundy. The "Catalogus Auctorum" in the Theatrum mentions Etienne Tabourot's Burgundy as not yet having appeared (Meurer p. 88-89).

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