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Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 9)
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Title:
Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont
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Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont
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Gordon, Robert (b.1580, d.1661)
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Gordon, Robert (b.1580, d.1661)
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Mapmaker
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Pont, Timothy (b.1564, d.Circa 1614)
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Pont, Timothy (b.1564, d.Circa 1614)
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Date:
1642
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A map of Caithness in an advanced state of drafting, complete with a title crediting the draft to Robert Gordon of Straloch and dated April 1642. The map locates 209 named places, primarily in the north of the county. It is almost identical to Joan Blaeu's map of Cathenesia first published in his Atlas Novus in 1654. Gordon's manuscript and Blaeu's engraving both derive independently from a manuscript map of Caithness compiled by Timothy Pont from observations on the ground in the last two decades of the sixteenth century. Pont's manuscript must have been returned from Amsterdam to Scotland, where it was copied again by Gordon and subsequently lost.
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A map of Caithness in an advanced state of drafting, complete with a title crediting the draft to Robert Gordon of Straloch and dated April 1642. The map locates 209 named places, primarily in the north of the county. It is almost identical to Joan Blaeu's map of Cathenesia first published in his Atlas Novus in 1654. Gordon's manuscript and Blaeu's engraving both derive independently from a manuscript map of Caithness compiled by Timothy Pont from observations on the ground in the last two decades of the sixteenth century. Pont's manuscript must have been returned from Amsterdam to Scotland, where it was copied again by Gordon and subsequently lost.
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28.3 x 18.5cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/16")
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Paper
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Pen and ink
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Caithness
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Caithness
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Pentland Firth
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Pentland Firth
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Scotland
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Scotland
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Scotland - northeast coast
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Scotland - northeast coast
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Thurso
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Reference:
Taylor, Alexander B., 'Manuscript maps of Pont, the Gordons and Adair in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh',Scottish Geographical Magazine, Nov., 1907, pp.583-591.
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Taylor, Alexander B., 'Manuscript maps of Pont, the Gordons and Adair in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh',Scottish Geographical Magazine, Nov., 1907, pp.583-591.
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© 2002 The National Library of Scotland
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© 2002 The National Library of Scotland
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