Have done unto you.) The gilt has been faded but is partly still visible. Of justice surrounded by a motto "QUOD TIBI FIERI NON VIS ALTERI NE FECERIS" (Do unto others as you would Front cover has "THEA / TRUM OR / BIS TER / RARUM". The front and back cover are richly tooled With date "1603" and title "ORTELLI THEATRVM ORBIS". Spine in seven compartments with raised bands, blind ruled in gilt on either side of each band, compartments With architectural surround, uncoloured engraved vignette on letterpress section title to the Nomenclator.ġ56 double-page hand-coloured engravings on 151 mapsheets (including 38 in the Parergon, 2 costume plates, 3Ĭontemporary brown calf, covers bordered and panelled in gilt and blind, covers with a large central design in gilt, II of Spain on the verso, engraved full-page memorial to Ortelius incorporating a small circular portrait of him,įull-page engraved portrait of Ortelius by Phillip Galle, hand-coloured engraved section-title to the Parergon Hand-coloured engraved allegorical general title, with full-page engraving With full period hand-colouring throughout. After 1612, the year of Vrient's death, the copperplates passed to the Moretus brothers, the successors of Christoffel Plantin.ģ parts in one volume (including the 'Parergon' and 'Nomenclator'), folio (45 x 31cm). The heirs of Ortelius sold the copperplates, and the publication rights in 1601, to Jan Baptist Vrients, who added some new maps. The Theatrum was printed at Ortelius's expense. Ortelius’s Parergon began as a companion to his Theatrum but eventually it became an independent work.Ībraham Ortelius himself drew all his maps in manuscript before passing them to the engravers Frans Hogenberg, Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius. As a scholar of antiquity, a dealer in antiques, and a visitor to ancient sites, he was well prepared to execute the maps and all the maps from the Parergon reflect his passion for the ancient world. Unlike the Theatrum, which consisted of existing maps reduced by Ortelius, the maps in the Parergon were drawnīy Ortelius himself. The most outstanding engravings depicting the wide-spread interest in classical geography in the 16th century” - Koeman. ”The maps and plates in the Parergon have to be evaluated as In fact, this collection of maps of the ancient world was so significant that it became the model for all historicalĪtlases published throughout the seventeenth century. Ortelius further included a massive appendix ( the Parergon), consisting of a detailed classical atlas, to appeal to Renaissance Europe's fascination with the ancient world. Memorial to Ortelius incorporating a small circular portrait of him. Summarised version of this bibliography of Ortelius and the section is followed by a This Latin edition of 1603 was the first edition including a His good friend Francis Sweertius, and it appeared in 1601. His first biography was written shortly after his death in the form of a book of mourning,Įntitled Insignium huius aevi poetarum lacrymae, in obytum Cl.V. The first edition including his bibliography.Ībraham Ortelius was one of the most prominent citizens of Antwerp, at a time when this city was a major trading centre ofĮurope, and indeed of the world. Humphrey Llwyd with a description of the islands of Anglesey and Man.Īll Latin editions contained these scientificĪppendices which Ortelius apperantly regarded as unnecesary in most other editions. The atlas also contains De Mona Druidum Insula.Epistola, a six folio page letter by the British geographer This was a list of place names, areas, islands, etc., taken from Ptolemy's Geographia, and their modern equivalents. Ortelius interest in history is seen in the addition of the In the first edition of 1570 the list included 87 names. Tabularum geographicarum", is one of the major peculiarities of the atlas. This he added the names of many other carthographers and geographers to his list. the original mapmakers), thus introducing for the first time the concept of footnoting to Western scholarship. Ortelius reduced the best available maps to a uniform format.įurther, the Theatrum was the first major printed work of any kind to include scholarly citations of authorities The Theatrum consists of two elements text and maps. Shape and contents set the standard for later atlases, when the centre of the map trade moved from Antwerp to Amsterdam. ”It's great commercial success enabled it to make a great contribution to geographical culture throughout Europe at the end of the sixteenth century”- Skelton. ”It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge since the days of Ptolemy, and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas.” – R.V. The publication of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570 marked an epoch in the history of cartography.
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