[Scotiae regnum]

[Scotiae regnum]

Item Information

Title:
[Scotiae regnum]
Title (alt.):
Seconde table d'Escosse
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/cj82m265x
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 shown pictorially.
Map of southern Scotland.
Bottom right corner: "Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum priuilegio."
Appears in the French ed. of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas and the Mercator-Hondius-Jansson Atlas. Amsterdam: H. Hondius, 1628 or 1633.
Text on verso in French with heading La Seconde table d'Escosse, decorated letter A, beginnning p.109 "Apres la Generale, suit la particuliere ... ", on p.112 "Le vulgaire faint divers usage ... " Sig. Ee.
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.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
06_01_007048
Call #:
G5770 1628.3 .M47x
Barcode:
39999059029320