BIB_ID
292953
Accession number
MA 665.16
Creator
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, cartographer.
Published
[England 17th cent.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 map : col. ; 43.1 x 53.8 cm
Notes
Attribution to Blaeu from a facsimile (published Edinburgh : J. Bartholomew, 1977).
Excerpted from an edition of William Camden's Britannia (verso of p. 228).
Map has been cut into four quarters and mounted onto four subsequent pages in the volume.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.
With red dots painted at 14 sites (matching the locations mentioned in the penances of MA 665.1-14, and Cambridge).
Excerpted from an edition of William Camden's Britannia (verso of p. 228).
Map has been cut into four quarters and mounted onto four subsequent pages in the volume.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.
With red dots painted at 14 sites (matching the locations mentioned in the penances of MA 665.1-14, and Cambridge).
Provenance
Purchased by J.W. Ford of Enfield Old Park at a public auction; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Showing county boundaries (hand colored with gold, pink, or green wash), rivers, parks and settlements. Relief shown pictorially. Bordered on left and right by colored coats of arms.
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