Aeneae Troiani Navigatio Ad Virgilii sex priores Aeneidos.

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Original copper engraving, published 1612 in the famous historical atlas "Parergon" (Latin text-edition) by Abraham Ortelius. Finely later hand colored in wash and outline. Cartographical sources of this map: Aenaeas is reported to have roamed the seas for seven years, as described in the writings of Xenophon, Ovidius, Lycrophonous, but most extensively by Virgilius in his Aenaeas. In the course of these wanderings, only seven of the original twenty ships remainded, as may be seen on this map in the lower left part of the sea (Broe. 223). The map is ornated with three decorative renaissance cartouches, at the top in the centre the title cartouche, on the upper right a cartouche with a text dedication to Balthasar Robiano, underneath with the ,privilegium' with date ,1594' and at the bottom a cartouche with text from Vergil's Aenaeas. This antique map was published for the first time in 1595 in the edition of the ,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' and was published until 1624 in the atlas ,Parergon' by A. Ortelius. Our example is here present in its second state of three published 1612 in historical atlas ,Parergon'. Verso with Latin descriptive text with illustrations of antique Roman coins.

Broe. 223 State 2 of 3