Shortly after Abraham Ortelius' death in 1598 the plates of his map collection, Theatrum orbis terrarum, were acquired by Johannes Vrients. He continued the editions of the Theatrum and also those of the Epitome, the reduced version. Here we have Ortelius' map of the Northern Countries scaled down from some edition of the Epitome. Because of the change in size many of the place-names have been removed.