Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 82

Title: FRISIAE ORIENTALIS DESCRIPTIO. [A depiction of East Friesland] (Cartouche lower left corner:) Ioes Florianus describ. [depicted by Iohannes Florianus] (Middle left:) "Cum priuilegio Imp. | et Reg. Mts ad | decennium .1579". [With Imperial and Royal Majesties privilege for ten years .1579].

Plate size: 314 x 447 mm
Scale: 1 : 200,000
Identification number: Ort 82 (Koeman/Meurer: 84, Karrow: 1/119, van der Krogt AN: 2310:31A)

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:
1579/1580L2Add24b (250 copies printed) (24th line from the top ends: mil- ; last line, centred like 1 line above it: primariis eorum opidis vocati.),
1579L(A)37 (250 copies printed) (typesetting identical to 1579/1580L2Add but different page number; no quotation marks in right margin from line 5 to line 16; 24th line from the top ends: mil- ; last line, centred like 1 line above it: primariis eorum opidis vocati.),
1579L(B)37 (250 copies printed) (quotation marks in right margin from line 5 to line 16; 24th line from the top ends: mille- ; last line, centred like 1 line above it: primariis eorum opidis vocati.),
1580G2Add24B (50 copies printed) no data,
1580/1589G37 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script: andere Graaffschaften/Esens nemlich/und Jeueren/die von ihren Fürnembsten Stätten also genennet seind.),
1581F37 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: mez du nom des villes principales qui sont en ladite region.),
1584L43 (750 copies printed) (last line, centred like one line above it: primariis eorum opidis sic vocati.),
1587F43 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: mez du nom des villes principales qui sont en ladite region.),
1588S43 (300 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: principales, que assi se llaman.),
1592L45 (50 copies printed) (almost all copies of the 1592L edition have plate Ort 83).
Replaced during 1592L by plate 83 which has an inset.
[The 1602G editions at the Plantin Museum in Antwerp and University Library Groningen still have this plate, with page number 50 at Plantijn, Groningen no page number, apparently left-over sheets that one did not want to discard. The typesetting, which is identical with that of the 1580/1589G edition seems to confirm this].
1602G50 (last line, left aligned: andere Graaffschafften/Esens nemlich/und Jeueren/die von ihren Fürnembsten Stätten also genennet sind).

Approximate number of copies printed: 2900.

States: we know 82.1 only.

Cartographic sources: based on a manuscript map by Jan Bloemmaerts also called Johannes Florianus (Meurer p. 146), a schoolmaster of Antwerp. The "Catalogus Auctorum" also mentions David Fabricius Esensis and Laurentius Michaelis ab Hogenkirchen as authors of East Frisia maps.

References: A.W. Lang (1985) "Kleine Kartengeschichte Frieslands zwischen Ems und Jade", Norden, p. 24-27.

Text

Bibliographical sources

Topographical names