Detail View: Charting The Nation: ILA INSULA, ex Aebudarum majoribus una. [1 of 2]

Work Record ID: 
0042341
Shelfmark: 
WD.3.B/43
Holding Institution: 
National Library of Scotland
Title: 
ILA INSULA, ex Aebudarum majoribus una.
Imprint: 
[Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1654]
Creator: 
Blaeu, Joan (b.1596, d.1673)
Creator Role: 
Publisher
Creator: 
Pont, Timothy (b.1564, d.Circa 1614)
Creator Role: 
Surveyor
Date: 
1654
Description: 
The map shows the island of Islay and also Colonsay and Gigha, locating them by including small parts of Knapdale and Kintyre to the east and of Jura to the north. The Rhinns of Islay are misoriented, as is Loch Gruinart, so that the island is scarcely recognisable from its shape. There is much detail, nevertheless, of settlement mostly located all around the coast. The map was compiled from observation on the ground by Timothy Pont, in the last two decades of the sixteenth century. It was engraved in Amsterdam, for publication in Blaeu's Atlas Novus, first published in 1654.
Work Type: 
Printed map/plan
Measurement: 
51.2 x 38.5cm (1' 8 3/16" x 1' 3 3/16")
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Hand coloured
Subject Place: 
Argyll and Bute
Subject Place: 
Colonsay, Island of
Subject Place: 
Gigha, Island of
Subject Place: 
Islay, Island of
Subject Place: 
Scotland
Reference: 
Skelton, R.A., County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850, [v.1:] 1579-1703, 1970, pp.97-109.
Related Work Title: 
Joannis Blaeu, Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive atlas novus. Pars quinta. Amstelaedami: Ioannem Blaeu, M DC LIV.
Related Work Notes: 
Host Item
Rights Statement: 
© 2002 The National Library of Scotland
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Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes): 
37007812
Repro Title: 
ILA INSULA, ex Aebudarum majoribus una. [1 of 2]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels): 
5608 x 7072
Repro ID Number: 
0042341c.tif
Repro Old ID Number: 
00000480
Repro Description: 
Text to verso (right)
Repro Capture Date: 
30/05/2000