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Title:	Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis episcopatus.					m0159
Creator (as stated on item):	[By G. Mercator]
Place of publication:	[Amsterdam]
Date of publication:	[1595]									MMM
Contents description: map of Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham county, showing towns, villages, parks and castles, rivers and hills, but not roads. The Roman Wall is shown. County boundaries, parks and hills coloured. Title in a cartouche... Descriptive text on verso in Latin. Engraved centre bottom: 'Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio'. Scale bar unit of measurement descibed on map as ' Milliaria mediocria Angliae'. From G. Mercator and J. Hondius, Atlas or a geographicke description... of the world (Amsterdam, H. Hondius & J. Jansson, 1595).
Scale indeterminable Additional scale information: [Scale bar: 3¼ in. = 20 miles]
Quantity/type of material:		1 map
Size:		33 x 45 cm
Other information		hand col.
Published description:		Skelton (1970) p. 220-22							(Bibliography)

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Repository/reference number:

DCO Maps +DU/A1 (accession D89307)

Index Terms

People
	Creator:	Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
	Other contributor:	Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612

Places
	Durham (England : County) - Maps, General - 1595
	Northumberland (England) - Maps - 1595
	Cumberland (England) - Maps - 1595

    Timestamp: 19/04/2024 03:44:10     Record number: 826