Fori Iulii Accurata Descriptio.
| Reference: | s24190 |
| Author | Abraham ORTELIUS |
| Year: | 1573 ca. |
| Zone: | Friuli |
| Printed: | Antwerpen |
| Measures: | 480 x 360 mm |
€900.00
| Reference: | s24190 |
| Author | Abraham ORTELIUS |
| Year: | 1573 ca. |
| Zone: | Friuli |
| Printed: | Antwerpen |
| Measures: | 480 x 360 mm |
€900.00
Description
The map shows a marvelous detailed plan of Venice and extends to east of Istria and north into the Maritime Alps. A nice full color example with wide margins.
Based upon a manuscript map by Johannes Sambucus sent to Ortelius shortly before 1573, itself based on an anonymous Venetian map of Friuli from the 1560's.
Map taken from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, which is considered the first true modern "Atlas". The work was published in 7 languages and 36 editions, for which - in 1570 - Ortelius obtained the privilege, a kind of copyright that prevented other cartographers from publishing his works. The Theatrum represented the most advanced work of cartographic description. Ortelius collected in it the geographical and cartographic knowledge of his time, proposing in 147 spectacular engraved plates the most faithful image of the world then known and, in some extraordinary "historical maps", regions and routes taken from literature, mythology, tradition. Ortelius was also the first to cite sources, mentioning the names of cartographers in the "catalogus auctorum". From 1598 to 1612 the posthumous editions of the Theatrum were made by his collaborator Johannes Baptiste Vrients.
“La seconda nuova carta, che comprende il territorio friulano nell'edizione del Theatrum del 1573, è la "FORI IV/LII ACCV/RATA DE=/SCRIP- TIO.". Essa, stando a quanto si afferma nella legenda che appare in alto, a destra, "EX BIBLIO=/THECA NOBI-/LIS ET DOCTI=/SSIMI JOAN=/NIS SAMBU=/CI, IMPERATORIAE MA[IES]T[A- TI]S/HISTORICI./1573.", dovrebbe essere copia di una carta proveniente dalla biblioteca dello storico e cartografo ungherese Giovanni Zsámbok o Sambuco .
Dopo le ottime argomentazioni dell'Almagià e del Cucagna infatti, non regge più l'iniziale attribuzione al Sambuco, avanzata, a suo tempo, dal Bagrow sulla base del fatto che l'Ortelio nel suo Catalogus Cartographorum l'aveva ricordato come Autore, tra l'altro, di una carta del Friuli.
È una stampa contornata da una larga cornice che contiene il titolo in un cartiglio ricco di mascheroni e la legenda esplicativa entro una targa incompleta. La raffigurazione cartografica misura circa mm 340x460; il rame mm 352x475. È priva di graduazione. In basso, verso destra, una bussola indica che l'orientazione ha in alto il nord-nord-est. Sempre in basso, appoggiata alla cornice, l'indicazione della scala grafica di 40 miglia italiane (= mm 137), sopra la quale si leggono le parole: Scala milliarium Italicorum 1000 passuum.
A una grande carta del Friuli e delle regioni contermini che rivela evidenti affinità con quel fortunato modello che, nella storia della cartografia friulana, ha come primo esempio che ci sia noto il disegno di Giovanni Antonio Cortona da Udine, certamente anteriore al 1554-, è stata qui aggiunta una raffigurazione dell'Istria derivata dal modello proposto da Pietro Coppo con la stampa del 1540. L'innesto, che non è stato felicemente praticato alla latitudine di Trieste (ne sono prove i doppioni di S. Seruo, che possiamo leggere a nord-est di Trieste e di Muggia, e di Castelnuovo, indicato una prima volta in giusta posizione nel solco omonimo con il toponimo sloveno di NOVIGRAT, ed, erroneamente ad est di Muggia, con la forma italiana di Castel nouo), non appare, però, questa volta, opera dell'Ortelio.
Questa, almeno, è l'opinione espressa prima dall'Almagià e, poi, dal Cucagna con ottimi argomenti, che, anche noi, abbiamo già a suo tempo accettato.” (Lago, Rossit "Theatrum Fori Iulii" vol. 1, p.143)
Copper engraving, contemporary coloring, in good condition.
Bibliografia:
Lago, Rossit "Theatrum Fori Iulii" vol. 1, pp. 143-146, Tav. LIII; M. Van den Broecke "Ortelius Atlas Maps" (2011), n. 119.
Abraham ORTELIUS (1528 - 1598)
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Abraham Ortel, better known as Ortelius, was born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up his business there with his sister, as a book dealer and 'painter of maps'. Travelling widely, especially to the great book fairs, his business prospered and he established contacts with many sultured men in many lands. On one such visit to England, possibly seeking temporary refuge from religious persecution, he met William Camden whom he is said to have encouraged in the production of the Britannia.
A turning-point in his career was reached in 1564 with the publication of a World Map in eight sheets of which only one copy is known: other individual maps followed and then - at the suggestion of a friend - he gathered together a collection of maps from contacts among European cartographers and had them engraved in uniform size and issued in 1570 as the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of the Whole World). Although Lafreri and others in Italy had published collections of 'modern' maps in book form in earlier years, the Theatrum was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps and hence can be called the first atlas, although that term itself was not used until twenty years later by Mercator.
The Theatrum, with most of its maps elegantly engraved by Frans Hogenberg, was an instant success and appeared in numerous editions in different languages including addenda issued from time to time incorporating the latest contemporary knowledge and discoveries. The final edition appeared in 1612. Unlike many of his contemporaries Ortelius noted his sources of information and in the first edition acknowledgement was made to eighty-seven different cartographers.
Apart from the modern maps in his major atlas, Ortelius himself compiled a series of historical maps known as the Parergon Theatri which appeared from 1579 onwards, sometimes as a separate publication and sometimes incorporated in the Theatrum.
1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570-1612 Between these years the Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with 5 supplements with text in Latin, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian and English. The English edition was published in 1606 by John Norton, the maps being printed in Antwerp and the text added in London. Three years later Ortelius died in 1598, his heirs transferred publication rights to Jan Baptiste Vrients who produced the posthumous editions until he died in 1612
1577-85 Spiegel der Werelt (8vo) Maps from the Theatrum, reduced in size, engraved by Philip Galle: text by Pieter Heyns. 6 editions with Dutch, French and Latin text. 1588-i 603 Epitome theatri orbis terrarum (12mo/8v0) 11 further editions of the smaller maps with an increasing number of maps with text also in Italian and English (1603). i6oi-i 2 7 further editions with improved engravings by Arsenius Brothers: text by Michel Coignet in Latin, French, German, Italian and English (1603). 1598-1724 Theatro del Mondo (4t0/12mo/24mo) 8 editions with Italian text; plates engraved in Italy.
1579-1606 Parergon Theatri The number of maps included in the Parergon increased from 4 in 1579 to 43 in 1606 with text in Latin, French, Italian, German and English (1606) 1624 Re-issued in Antwerp as a separate publication by Balthasar Moretus. This edition included a reproduction of the Peutinger table.
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Abraham ORTELIUS (1528 - 1598)
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Abraham Ortel, better known as Ortelius, was born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up his business there with his sister, as a book dealer and 'painter of maps'. Travelling widely, especially to the great book fairs, his business prospered and he established contacts with many sultured men in many lands. On one such visit to England, possibly seeking temporary refuge from religious persecution, he met William Camden whom he is said to have encouraged in the production of the Britannia.
A turning-point in his career was reached in 1564 with the publication of a World Map in eight sheets of which only one copy is known: other individual maps followed and then - at the suggestion of a friend - he gathered together a collection of maps from contacts among European cartographers and had them engraved in uniform size and issued in 1570 as the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of the Whole World). Although Lafreri and others in Italy had published collections of 'modern' maps in book form in earlier years, the Theatrum was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps and hence can be called the first atlas, although that term itself was not used until twenty years later by Mercator.
The Theatrum, with most of its maps elegantly engraved by Frans Hogenberg, was an instant success and appeared in numerous editions in different languages including addenda issued from time to time incorporating the latest contemporary knowledge and discoveries. The final edition appeared in 1612. Unlike many of his contemporaries Ortelius noted his sources of information and in the first edition acknowledgement was made to eighty-seven different cartographers.
Apart from the modern maps in his major atlas, Ortelius himself compiled a series of historical maps known as the Parergon Theatri which appeared from 1579 onwards, sometimes as a separate publication and sometimes incorporated in the Theatrum.
1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570-1612 Between these years the Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with 5 supplements with text in Latin, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian and English. The English edition was published in 1606 by John Norton, the maps being printed in Antwerp and the text added in London. Three years later Ortelius died in 1598, his heirs transferred publication rights to Jan Baptiste Vrients who produced the posthumous editions until he died in 1612
1577-85 Spiegel der Werelt (8vo) Maps from the Theatrum, reduced in size, engraved by Philip Galle: text by Pieter Heyns. 6 editions with Dutch, French and Latin text. 1588-i 603 Epitome theatri orbis terrarum (12mo/8v0) 11 further editions of the smaller maps with an increasing number of maps with text also in Italian and English (1603). i6oi-i 2 7 further editions with improved engravings by Arsenius Brothers: text by Michel Coignet in Latin, French, German, Italian and English (1603). 1598-1724 Theatro del Mondo (4t0/12mo/24mo) 8 editions with Italian text; plates engraved in Italy.
1579-1606 Parergon Theatri The number of maps included in the Parergon increased from 4 in 1579 to 43 in 1606 with text in Latin, French, Italian, German and English (1606) 1624 Re-issued in Antwerp as a separate publication by Balthasar Moretus. This edition included a reproduction of the Peutinger table.
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