Scotia regnum /
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
[Duisberg : Mercator,
1595]
Scale statement reads "Miliaria Scotica" 28 = 33 mm.
Relief shown pictorially.
Features include yellow border surrounding map ; regions hand coloured.
Bottom right corner: "Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Priuilegio".
Map was first published in Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" printed in Duisberg in 1595; it appeared in subsequent editions of the atlas until 1634.
Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was first issued; the text on the verso helps to tie the map to a particular issue of the atlas, but in this case the map is mounted and no text is visible.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Dotted sea.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
RSGS and Moir : "The early maps of Scotland",
Scotland with Hebrides and Orkney.
Held at National Library of Scotland.