Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 68

Title: NAMVRCVM | "Comitatus". [Countship of Namur] (Lower right corner cartouche:) "Ioes Surhon describ. [Designed by Ioannes Surhonius]. (Bottom right cartouche:) "Cum Imp. et Regiæ. | Mtis privilegijs .1579." [With privileges from the Emperor and his Royal Majesty, 1579].

Plate size: 389 x 512 mm
Scale: 1 : 160,000
Identification number: Ort 68 (Koeman/Meurer: 80, Karrow: 1/115, van der Krogt AN: 3340:31)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1579/1580L2Add20a (250 copies printed) (9th line from the top ends: reor. ; last line, centred like 2 lines above it: ratè descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.) ,
1579L(A)29 (250 copies printed) (9th line from the top ends: reor. ; last line, centred like 2 lines above it: ratè descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.),
1579L(B)29 (250 copies printed) (9th line from the top ends: (quasi ; last line, centred like 2 lines above it: rate descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.),
1580G2Add20a (50 copies printed), (last line, centred like 3 lines above it, in Gothic script: naw und fleissig beschriben.),
1580/1589G29 (350 copies printed) (last line, centred like 3 lines above it, in Gothic script: naw und fleissig beschriben.),
1581F29 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: la Gaule Belgique, est diligemment descrite par Louis Guicciardin.),
1584L35 (750 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: ratè descripsit Lud.Guicciardinus.),
1587F35 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: gique,est diligemment descrite par Louis Guicciardin.),
1588S35 (300 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: declarada en Ludouico Guicciardino.),
1592L37 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Hanc regionem , vt ceteras Belgicas,accuratè descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.),
1595L39 (500 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Hanc regionem,vt ceteras Belgicas,accuratè descripsit Lud.Guicciardinus.),
1598/1610/1613D31 (100 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: beschreuen.),
1598F42 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: gique,est diligemment descrite par Louis Guicciardin.),
1601L39 (200 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: Hanc regionem , vt ceteras Belgicas , accuratè descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.),
1602G42 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 3 lines above it, in Gothic script like the entire text: naw vnd fleissig beschriben.),
1602S42 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: ligentemente declarada en Ludouico Guicciardino.),
1603blank (Vri1) no text nor page number,
1603L42 (300 copies printed) (5th line ends: monte, ; last line, left aligned: Hanc regionem, vt ceteras Belgicas,accuratè descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.),
1606E39 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: described by "Guicciardine."),
1608/1612I47 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: tissima, & vsa il Francese idioma,& fu dal Guicciardino con istudio descritta.),
1609/1612L46 (300 copies printed) (5th line ends: mõte, ; last line, left aligned: Hanc regionem,vt ceteras Belgicas,accuratè descripsit Lud. Guicciardinus.),
1609/1612/1641S45 (325 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: mas Belgicas, hallaras diligentemente declarada en Ludouico Guicciardino.).

Approximate number of copies printed: 6725.

States: 68.1 above.
68.2: some time after 1612S, "Theodorus Galle excudit Antverpiæ" was added at lower right.
68.3: after 1641 "Theodorus Galle excudit Antverpiæ" erased again.

Cartographic sources: Jacques Surhon made a manuscript map of Luxemburg for which he received 130 Livres in 1555. For security reasons it was not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerpen was independent for a short time, did Ortelius use it. (Meurer p. 251-252).

References: H.A.M. van der Heijden "Ortelius and the Netherlands", p. 271-290 in: M. van den Broecke, P. van der Krogt and P. Meurer (eds.) "Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas", HES Publishers, 1998.

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