| Record ID | cp010818 |
| Voet reference number | 1828 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Abraham ORTELIUS (ORTELS) |
| Title page transcription | SPIEGHEL DER WERELT, ‖ GHESTELT IN RYME DOOR ‖ M. PEETER HEYNS: ‖ Waer inne letterlyck ende figuerlyck de gheleghentheyt, natuere, ende ‖ aert aller landen claerlyck afgebeeldt ende beschreuen wordt: ‖ Niet min dienstelyck voor alle Wandelaers, dan het heerlyck Theatrum Abra- ‖ hami Ortelij den Studenten t'huys nut ende noodich is. ‖ PSALM XLV. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ Comt, en besiet de wercken des Heeren ‖ T'ANTWERPEN, ‖ Ghedruckt by Christoffel Plantyn, hooft-drucker der Conincklycke Mteyt. ‖ voor Philips Galle. ‖ M.D.LXXVII. |
| Collation | 4⁰ oblong (135 × 195): *-**⁴, A-Y⁴; folios [1r-8v], 1r-70v (= for 73v), [74r-v] (Errors: 8 for 68, 70 for 73) |
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| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Tot den besiender (words in italic type) [2r]: illustration [2v]: Privilege (to Philip Galle: Brussels, 20 July 1577, signed by Iac. Blyleven) [3r-5r]: Edelen…heer Hendrick van Berchem, ende heer Nicolaes Roccox, riddere…beyde borghe-meesters deser voorseyder stadt [Antwerp] (Antwerp, 24 June 1577, s. Peeter Heyns; civilité type) [5v-6v]: Een t'samensprekinghe tusschen Philippe Galle, ende M. Peeter Heyns (s. P. Galle) [6v]: Note on the book (italic type) [7r-8v]: Totten wandelaers (italic type, marginals in roman type) [8v]: Errata 1r-70v (= for 73v): Text (words in italic type, marginals in roman type) 70v (= for 73v): Tot den Neder-Landtschen facteurs (italic type, words and marginal in roman type) [74r]: Table (on 8 columns) [74v]: approbation (Antwerp, 3 July 1577, s. D. Hendrick Ziberts vander Dunghen) |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) Allegorical representation with the typographically printed caption 'Speculum mundi', on folio 2r 2) 72 maps, of which 66 small (c. 78 × c. 107) and 6 larger (c. 160 × c. 218; on sheets folded into the work) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1103: this copy lostKBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryKB National Library of the NetherlandsLeiden University LibrariesBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 182-183 (1577, no. 15; also noted erroneously under 1579, no. 34, page 208) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, pages 450-452 Denucé, I, pages 230-232 Koeman, III, pages 73-74, no. 47 (with reproduction of title-page: illustration 11) |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Pocket-atlas with 72 maps, each with accompanying Dutch texts (in verses; by Pieter Heyns) (for the smaller maps: printed on the even pages facing the maps on the uneven pages; for the folded maps: printed on the verso-sides of the maps). The maps are rather crudely executed. Detailed enumeration, with interesting comment, in BB, III, page 451, and Koeman, III, pages 73-74. |
| Note 2 | Some variants: in copy KB National Library of the Netherlands the map of Flanders (no. cp010997) has erroneously been replaced by the map of Palestine (which figures also correctly as no. 69); in copy KBR Royal Library of Belgium the map of Livonia (no. cp010624) is printed upside down. |
| Note 3 | Plantin charged Galle 21 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers for printing the texts (9 November 1577: 'Item pour compte faict avec C. Plantin de l'impression du miroir en flamen 23½ [rames] à 18 stuivers la rame font 21 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers': Arch. 18, folio 253; text reproduced in Denucé, I, page 247). The paper must have been supplied by Galle. |
| Note 4 | Plantin paid Galle the copies of the Spieghel der werelt he ordered in those months 1 florins Carolus guilders 2 stuivers |
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