| Record ID | cp010405 |
| Voet reference number | 1821 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3242945 |
| Author | Abraham ORTELIUS (ORTELS) |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page:] Pasted on the centre-part (where in Latin editions: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) a paper with the French title: THEATRE ‖ DE ‖ L'VNIVERS, ‖ CONTENANT LES ‖ CARTES DE TOVT ‖ LE MONDE. ‖ AVEC VNE BRIEVE ‖ DECLARATION ‖ D'ICELLES. ‖ Par ‖ ABRAHAM ORTELIVS [Printed typographically underneath:] Le tout reveu, amendé, & augmenté de plusieurs Cartes & ‖ declarations par le mesme autheur. M.D.LXXXVII. |
| Collation | Folio (430 × 290): [*ⁱ], *-, [maps: quires not numbered], A⁶; pages [1-12], 112 double sheets, [1-12] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: French quotation from Cicero [3]: Au prudent senat, et peuple d''Anvers, Christophle Plantin [4-7]: Abraham Ortelius au lecteur debonnaire (Antwerp, 1572) [8-10]: M. Gerard Du Vivier sur le frontispice de ce present livre (italic type) [11]: Au debonaire spectateur et lecteur du theatre d''Abraham Ortel…(s. Plant'' en Christ la foi [= Plantin]) [12]: illustration (Portrait of Ortelius) 1-112: Double sheets with maps, numbered 1-112 [1]: L'adieu de l'aucteur au lecteur [2-3]: Voyes, chemins et addresses par ou, et en quelle maniere les pierreries, espiceries et autres choses estranges des Asiens et Indiens souloyent venir en noz pays… [4-5]: Noms d'aucunes marchandises estranges et des places d'ou elles nous sont icy amenées (on three columns; part in italic type) [6-10]: Indices (on columns; parts in italic type) [11]: Privilege (Regensburg, 1576, signed by Esternberger; Privy Council, Antwerp, 1579, s. Sille; Council of Brabant, Brussels, 1579, s. Blyleven); A ANVERS, De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, pour Abraham Ortel ‖ autheur mesme de ce Liure [12]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | Same illustrations as in the Latin edition of 1584 |
| Copies | Bibliothèque nationale de France- G 525British Library London- C. 2. d. 2National Maritime Museum, Greenwich - Greenwich (Great Britain)Oeffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, BaselSchweizerische Landesbibliothek, BernKBR Royal Library of BelgiumNewberry Library, ChicagoGhent University LibraryLibrary of Congress - Washington D.C. (USA). |
| Bibliographical references | Denucé, II, page 115 G. Atkinson, La littérature géographique française de la Renaissance, I, 1927, no. 327 Koeman, III, pages 50-51, no. 22 Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
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| Note 1 | French edition with the same maps as in the Latin 1584-edition (enumerated in Koeman). The double sheets with the maps are numbered 1-112: to the contrary of the 1584 Latin-edition the sheets 101 and 102 have been used for the maps. The introductory and the last parts, as also the texts accompanying the 'old' maps, are the same as in the French 1581-edition. |
| Note 2 | For printing the typographical texts Plantin charged Ortelius 177 florins Carolus guilders in June-July 1587 (Arch. 20, folio 263: 'Pour l'impression de son Theatrum en françois contenant folia 118, montant à rayson de 30 patt. [stuivers] la fueille'; text reproduced in Denucé, II, page 206). |
| Note 3 | For the copies bought from Ortelius, Plantin had to pay 16 florins Carolus guilders |
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