Early maps of the British Isles, A.D. 1000-A.D. 1579 [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 3009563
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
- Scale:
- Scales indeterminable (W 10°--E 2°/N 60°--N 50°)
- Description:
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- London : Royal Geographical Society, 1961
- 1 atlas (1 portfolio (20 maps on 14 sheets and 1 book) : ill. ; 42 x 43 cm. or smaller, on sheet 41 x 54 cm., in portfolio 42 x 55 cm.
- Series:
- R.G.S. reproductions of early maps ; 7.
- Full contents:
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- Plate 1. Anonymous world map, c. A.D. 1000 [Cottonian or Anglo-Saxon map]
- Plate. 2. Giraldus Cambrensis: Western Europe, c. A.D. 1200
- Plate 3. Richard of Haldingham : the British Isles, from the world map in Hereford Cathedral, c. A.D. 1300
- Plate 4. Matthew Paris: Great Britain, c. A.D. 1250
- Plate 5. Matthew Paris: 'Scema Britannie', c. A.D. 1250
- Plate 6. Anonymous map of Great Britain (the Gough map), c. A.D. 1360
- Plate 7. Anonymous marine chart (Pinelli-Walkenaer), c. A.D. 1384
- Plate 8. Anonymous map of Great Britain, c. A.D. 1400
- Plate 9. Andrea Bianco : Chart of Western Europe, A.D. 1436
- Plate 10. Pietro Coppo : the British Isles, c. A.D. 1528
- Plate 11. Claudius Ptolemaeus : the British Isles, Strasbourg, A.D. 1513
- Plate 12. Anonymous : 'Anglia figura ... ', after A.D. 1534
- Plate 13. Sebastian Munster: 'Anglia; nova tabula' Basel, A.D. 1552
- Plate 14. George Lily : 'Britanniae Insulae ... nova descriptio' Rome, A.D. 1546
- Plate 15. Diogo Homem : the British Isles, A.D. 1558
- Plate 16. Abraham Ortelius : 'Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae ... descriptio' Antwerp, A.D. 1570
- Plate 17. Laurence Nowell : 'A general description of England and Irelande' c. A.D. 1560
- Plate 18. Laurence Nowell : Sussex and Kent, c. A.D. 1564
- Plate 19. Humphrey Lhuyd: 'Angliae ... nova descripto' Antwerp, A.D. 1573
- Plate 20. Christopher Saxton : 'Anglia ...' London, A.D. 1579.
- Notes:
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- Accompanied by booklet: Early maps of the British Isles, A.D. 1000 - A.D. 1579 / with introduction and notes by G.R. Crone. London : Royal Geographical Society, 1961. [32] p. ; 32 cm.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Map shown pictorially.
- Title from portfolio.
- Shows the British Isles from early times to the Tudor age.
- Bibliography: p. 30-31.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1000-1579
- Other authors/contributors:
- Crone, G. R. (Gerald Roe)
- Copyright:
-
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1961
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