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Source Description
Relief showm pictorially.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
cj82m263c
label
Scotiae regnum
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
cj82m263c
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Scotiae regnum
description
Relief showm pictorially.
date
["[1628–1633]"]
year
1628
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_007037
creators
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Scotland--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Europe
Scotland
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Scotland
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Amsterdam
publisher
H. Hondius
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
57
schema:longitude
-4
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 34 x 44 cm.
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.
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no
dcId
cj82m263c
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
9d62dcc73f12a8bb