![]() Although he never studied at university, he had many academically trained friends. They are still a popular way to honour academic professionals at the end of their career by offering them a collection of essays in their own or related fields.Abraham Ortelius' friendship book was by no means the first in his own circle of friends. Dutch Alba Amicorum have been described in detail by Thomassen. Patricia Aske, Pembroke College, CambridgeIntroduction'Friendship Books' or 'Alba Amicorum' or 'Festschrifts' originate from Wittenberg in Germany in the early part of the 16th century. The Album Amicorum, and its reference to Breughel, formed part of the plot in Michael Frayn’s novel, Headlong, published in 1999. In 2015 Dr Marcel van den Broecke published his book, Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598: life, works, sources and friends (Bilthoven: Cartographica Neerlandica, 2015), which contains a very useful description of the images. A facsimile edition was published in 1969 (with translations into French, and reproducing the pages in black and white). Taken together they comprise a rich and highly significant compendium of the scholarly, cultural and religious life of the Low Countries in the sixteenth century. Each individual contribution to the album is of interest. It has a bookplate reading 'Ex Dono Ricardi Atwood AM' but Wren’s catalogue indicates that the donor was Thomas Stanley (1625-1678), the poet, classical scholar, and historian of philosophy.This is a volume of pre-eminent national and international importance. The album has been solidly rebound and is now in modern full green morocco. Some of the contributions appear to have been written into the album, often on pages prepared by an illustrator with elaborate and handsome decorative borders others were separately prepared or sent and subsequently laid down. The list of friends includes William Camden, Gerhard Mercator, Christopher Plantin, Justus Lipsius, John Dee and many others. ![]() The contributions were gathered over a number of years and more than 130 of his contemporaries are represented. This superb album comprises contributions (signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, engravings, coats of arms) to the renowned Flemish cartographer, geographer and antiquary Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) from a distinguished and international group of his friends. It has been digitized to safeguard it for future generations and to make it more widely available. He also studied classical literature and history, and is remembered as a humanist.Pembroke College : Album Amicorum of Abraham Ortelius Pembroke CollegeįorewordThis book, an early autograph or 'commonplace book', is one of Pembroke Library’s most valuable and beautiful treasures. He could speak several languages, including Dutch, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and English. His first maps were those of Egypt, Asia, Spain and the Roman Empire. It was his journey with cartographer Gerard Mercator that inspired him to start producing maps. His innovation “helped give all a truly global view”.īorn in Antwerp, Belgium, on April 4, 1527, he initially worked as a map-engraver. Google calls him “one of the first cartographers to consistently add sources and names to the creators of the original maps”. Ortelius was also one of the first cartographers to add sources and names to the creators of the original maps. The first edition of the atlas had 53 maps while the last one, published in 1622, had 167. His atlas brought geographical maps together, gathering them all into the same format. The atlas that Ortelius came up with recorded the first evidence of continental drift. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the world) was published on May 20, 1570. Google on Sunday honoured Abraham Ortelius with a doodle for creating the world’s first modern atlas. ‘Literally breathtaking’: Air quality in Delhi worsens, pollution memes take over social media.Hylo Open QF as it happened: Srikanth, Treesa-Gayatri reach semifinals Satwik-Chirag, Bansod out.Watch: Leopard appears in Karnataka town, crashes into passing motorcyclist, injures residents.An Indian Army officer throws some light on the history of the Siachen glacier dispute in a new book.The big news: Former journalist Isudan Gadhvi is AAP’s Gujarat CM candidate, and 9 other top stories.Hockey, FIH Pro League, India vs New Zealand as it happened: Harmanpreet and Co comeback to win 7-4.For those planning to leave Twitter because of Elon Musk, a word of caution.What are the differences between a populist leader and a dictator? Ancient Greeks have the answer.Watch: Comedian Danish Sait hilariously spoofs conversations by Pakistani taxi drivers in Dubai.‘Mili’ review: A nail-biting survival drama.‘Phone Bhoot’ review: Ghostbuster comedy aims for the so-bad-it’s-good prize.Who benefits from keeping Dalits ‘Hindu’.
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