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Ortelius / Vrients 1608 Cataloniae Principatus Novissima et Accurata Descriptio

Referencia Librería: 1608ortelius
Estado de conservación: muy bien
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Comprende Cataluña, el Rosellón y la Cerdaña. Incluido en el "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" de Abraham Ortelius. Se trata del primer mapa impreso de Cataluña, que posteriormente sería copiado por numerosos cartógrafos. Al verso, texto en castellano. Marco con rotulación de grados y subdivisiones de 10´y 2´. Meridiano origen de la isla de Hierro (Islas Canarias). En el ángulo inferior derecho, cartela rodeada por tres escudos y dos figuras alegóricas, conteniendo dedicatoria y autor. En el inferior izquierdo, las escalas gráficas en millas y leguas. Relieve representado por perfiles de montañas abatidos. Planimetría con ciudades representadas por agrupación de edificios, puentes y división de reinos y países. La hidrografía representa la red principal, con denominación de los ríos más importantes. La costa parece realzada con rayado horizontal. En el mar con punteado y un galeón y un pez fantástico completan la decoración. Una rosa náutica de treinta y tres vientos que se cortan al llegar a la costa, con flor de lis indicando el N. y una cruz al E. Abundante toponimia en castellano, catalán y latín. Rotulación en letra romanilla e itálica. Rúbrica de fantasía para los nombres del mar Mediterráneo y Reino de Aragón. Datado durante el reinado de Felipe III (1598-1621)

Rare Early Map of Catalonia

Fine example of Jan Baptiste Vrients map of Catalonia, which first appeared in the 1608 edition of Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.

The map is based on Vrient's 6-sheet map of Catalonia, first published in 1600.

 

Reference

Van Den Broecke 33.

Abraham Ortelius is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers. Ortelius started his career as a map colorist. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560, were for commercial purposes. In 1560, while traveling with Gerard Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards a career as a scientific geographer. From that point forward, he devoted himself to the compilation of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), which would become the first modern atlas.

In 1564 he completed his “mappemonde", an eight-sheet map of the world. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basel. Ortelius also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, prior to 1570.

On May 20, 1570, Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum first appeared in an edition of 70 maps. By the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. Later editions would also be issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius’ successors, Vrients and Plantin, the former adding a number of maps to the atlas, the final edition of which was issued in 1612. Most of the maps in Ortelius' Theatrum were drawn from the works of a number of other mapmakers from around the world; a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself

In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography with his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished as Thesaurus geographicus in 1596). In 1584 he issued his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, a Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). Late in life, he also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table (1598).

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