Exactissima Regni Scotiae tabula tam in septentrionalem et meriodionalem quam in minores earundem provincias, insulasq[ue], ei undique praetensas accurate divisa

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Title: Exactissima Regni Scotiae tabula tam in septentrionalem et meriodionalem quam in minores earundem provincias, insulasq[ue], ei undique praetensas accurate divisa
Creator: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
Published / Created: ca. 1689]
Publication Place: Amst. [Amsterdam
Publisher: Nicolaes Visscher
Description: BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 61.2 x 52 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 7 of 63 maps bound together.
BEIN 1981 Folio 7: Stamp of Albany Institute. No. 58 of 79 maps bound together.
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows grid, rivers and tributaries, lochs (shaded), trees, place and county names, settlements (symbols classified by importance in legend), territorial boundaries.
Scale statement reads: "Milliaria Germanica Communia 15 in uno Gradu", with scale bar graded [0]-10; "Milliaria Scotica Communia quorum 50 in uno Gradu", with scale bar graded [0]-34; "Milliaria Gallica quae et Horae Itineris 20 in uno Gradu", with scale bar graded [0]-14.
The four cardinal points are written in the borders.
Features include ornate title cartouche (top left) with cherubs, male and female figures and royal coat-of-arms supported by lion and unicorn, arms of Scotland supported by cherubs (above scale cartouche at top right), compass indicator and coasts shaded outwards.
"Bat. cum Privil. Ordin. Gener, Belgii Faederati"--Title cartouche.
Shows Scotland including the Hebrides and Orkney islands.
In Latin with some place names in English; explanations and title for index to places in Dutch and English.
Extent: 1 map : 54.9 x 46.1 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:960,000]
Coordinates: (W 8⁰0ʹ--W 1⁰45ʹ/N 59⁰30ʹ--N 54⁰36ʹ).
Language: Latin
English
Dutch

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: 1973 Folio 10

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Maps
Early works to 1800
Material: hand col. ;
Subject (Geographic): Scotland
Subjects: Scotland > Maps > Early works to 1800
Rodriguez, José M. > Bookplate
Albany Institute > Stamp

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Identifiers

Catalog Record: 8438138
Object ID (OID): 2046647