Detail View: Charting The Nation: Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont [1 of 1]
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Work Record ID:
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0042201
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Shelfmark:
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Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 9)
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Holding Institution:
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National Library of Scotland
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Title:
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Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont
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Creator:
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Gordon, Robert (b.1580, d.1661)
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Creator Role:
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Mapmaker
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Creator:
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Pont, Timothy (b.1564, d.Circa 1614)
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Creator Role:
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Surveyor
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Date:
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1642
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Description:
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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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Work Type:
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Manuscript map/plan
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Measurement:
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28.3 x 18.5cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/16")
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Material:
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Paper
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Technique:
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Pen and ink
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Subject Place:
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Caithness
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Subject Place:
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Pentland Firth
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Subject Place:
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Scotland
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Subject Place:
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Scotland - northeast coast
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Subject Place:
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Thurso
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Reference:
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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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Rights Statement:
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© 2002 The National Library of Scotland
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Repro File Type:
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Cropped Tiff
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Repro File Size (bytes):
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65085680
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Repro Title:
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Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont [1 of 1]
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Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
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7100 x 5349
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Repro ID Number:
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0042201c.tif
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Repro Old ID Number:
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00000277
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Repro Capture Date:
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10/05/2000
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