Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia

Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia

Item Information

Title:
Cornubia, Davonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Pembroke, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia, & Wigornia
Title (alt.):
Cornvbia, Devonia, Somersetvs, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monvmetha, Glamorgan, Caermarden, Penbrok, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia & Wigornia
Description:
These two maps, portraying portions of Cornwall and Wales, were originally prepared by Gerard Mercator, one of the greatest of early Dutch map makers. These two atlas sheets were published in either the 1628 or 1633 French edition of Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’s Atlas. Originally published in 1595, this book of maps was the first such publication to use the term “atlas” to describe a collection of published maps. The use of this term is often associated with the Greek Titan, Atlas, who was condemned by Zeus to carry the heavens and earth on his shoulders for all time.
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Name on Item:
per Gerardum Mercatorem.
Date:
[1633]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
Subjects:
Cornwall (England : County)--Maps--Early works to 1800
West Country (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Wales--Maps--Early works to 1800
Great Britain--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
England > Cornwall (county)
Wales
Extent:
1 map : col. ; 58 x 47 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6t053s73b
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Amsterdam : J. Hondius
Scale:
Scale not given.
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Bottom/south sheet.
Relief shown pictorially.
Appears in Mercator's Atlas. Amsterdam. 1633.
Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
05_04_000032
Call #:
G5740 1633.1 .M47
Barcode:
39999052509716