Scotiae regnum

Scotiae regnum

Item Information

Title:
Scotiae regnum
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Name on Item:
per Gerardum Mercatorem.
Date:
[1628–1633]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
Subjects:
Scotland--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Scotland
Extent:
1 map : hand col. ; 34 x 44 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cj82m263c
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Amsterdam : H. Hondius
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:1,100,000].
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Relief showm pictorially.
Bottom right corner: "Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum priuilegio."
Appears in the French ed. of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1628 or 1633.
Text on verso in French with heading La Troisiesme table d'Escosse, decorated letter L, beginnning p.113 "La Taichie est suyvie par les Monts Ocelles ... ", on p.116 "Vulgaire l'appelle Strathnavernie ... " Sig. Ff.
Map was first published in Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" printed in Duisberg in 1595.
Meridian from Ferro.
Northern Scotland, with Hebrides and Orkney.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
06_01_007037
Call #:
G5770 1628 .M47x
Barcode:
39999059029247