Detail View: Charting The Nation: FIFAE VICECOMITATVS, [1 of 3]
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Work Record ID:
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0042328
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Shelfmark:
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WD.3.B/30
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Holding Institution:
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National Library of Scotland
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Title:
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FIFAE VICECOMITATVS,
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Imprint:
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[Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1654]
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Creator:
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Blaeu, Joan (b.1596, d.1673)
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Creator Role:
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Publisher
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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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Creator:
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Gordon, Robert (b.1588, d.1661)
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Creator Role:
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Mapmaker
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Creator:
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John, Earl of Lindsay
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Creator Role:
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Dedicatee
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Creator:
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Gordon, James (b.1615?, d.1686)
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Creator Role:
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Associated Person
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Date:
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1654
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Description:
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A relatively small scale map showing all of Fife and both shores of the Firths of Forth and Tay. Fife is shown in considerable detail and with greater accuracy than any other map of Scotland in Blaeu's Atlas Novus. The map locates some 430 more places than appear in the two maps by Timothy Pont which cover Fife and were published in the same Atlas. The great density of place names necessitated the use of very small cartographic signs to locate those places. Robert Gordon's manuscript drafts for this engraving, one of which survives in the National Library of Scotland, were probably compiled in 1642. The engraving was made in Amsterdam and first published in Blaeu's Atlas Novus, in 1654.
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Work Type:
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Printed map/plan
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Measurement:
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50.8 x 40.2cm (1' 8" x 1' 3 13/16")
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Material:
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Paper
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Technique:
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Hand coloured
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Subject Place:
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Fife
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Subject Place:
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Firth of Tay
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Subject Place:
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Forth, Firth of
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Subject Place:
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Scotland
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Reference:
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Skelton, R.A., County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850, [v.1:] 1579-1703, 1970, pp.97-109.
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Related Work Title:
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Joannis Blaeu, Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive atlas novus. Pars quinta. Amstelaedami: Ioannem Blaeu, M DC LIV.
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Related Work Notes:
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Host Item
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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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42482764
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Repro Title:
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FIFAE VICECOMITATVS, [1 of 3]
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Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
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5680 x 7072
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Repro ID Number:
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0042328c.tif
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Repro Old ID Number:
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00000443
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Repro Description:
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Text to verso (right)
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Repro Capture Date:
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25/05/2000
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