Edenburgum, Scotiae Metropolis.
Hogenberg, Franz,-1590?
Braun, Georg,1540 or 1541-1622.
[Cologne : G. Braun & F. Hogenberg,
ca. 1582]
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows details of buildings, churches, streets, city walls, trees and fields boundaries.
At top left hand section of map, written above Edinburgh Castle "Castrum puellarum",  meaning "castle of the maidens", one of the mediaeval names of the castle.
At top of map: "Edenbvrg" in decorated box.
In bottom left hand corner: ornate cartouche containing title in flourished script.
Includes 16th century figures at front of map.
On verso: in Latin, with historiated initial, a text with title "Edenbvrgvm" giving an account of the city. At bottom of text "4".
Map first issued in Georg Braun's and Franz Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", first published by Theodor Graminaeus of Cologne in 1572. The text was written by Braun and the engravings done by Hogenberg. This map originally in the ca. 1582 edition.
Imprint derived from work in which it originally appeared.
Goss, John. "Braun & Hogenberg's 'The City Maps of Europe': A Selection of 16th Century Town Plans".
Shows the city of Edinburgh.