Subject: Hungary
Period: 1595 (published)
Publication: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Color: Hand Color
Size:
19.6 x 13.9 inches
49.8 x 35.3 cm
This handsome map covers Hungary, eastern Transylvania, and Bulgaria. Ortelius based this map on Wolfgang Lazius' 1556 five-sheet wall map. It is densely engraved with rivers, lakes, mountains, and hundreds of place names, each represented by a tiny castle. Tiny animals fill the blank spaces. The title spans the top of the map in a strapwork cartouche. At bottom right is a large decorative cartouche containing the rules for Hungarian consonant pronunciation of the place names. This is the fourth state, with Latin text on verso.
References: Van den Broecke #150.4.
Condition: B+
There are a few areas of light color offsetting.
