Scotia.
Porcacchi, Thomaso,approximately 1530-1585?.
Porro, Girolamo,1520-1604.
Heredi di Simon Galignani.
Venetia : Appresso gli Heredi di Simon Galignani,
1605.
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows settlements (with and without churches), place names, rivers and lochs (stippled).
Orientated with north to the right.
Decoration: At bottom right, ornate title cartouche (angels holding a cartouche where the title is inscribed), sea detail (stippled), elaborated windrose with winds' initials inscribed, ship, boat and sea monsters.
At top right "Hebrides insule XLIII"; at bottom right "Orcades insule XXXI".
On atlas' title page: "... intagliate da Girolamo Porro ...", possibly engraver of this map also.
Map appears on page 23 of vol. 1, at head of text with title: Descrittione dell'Isola di Scotia.
Map first issued in the Porcacchi's 1572 edition of L'Isole piu famose del mondo.
Map measurements and scale taken from Moir's description.
Imprint derived from atlas in which it appears.
Moir, D.G., Early maps of Scotland to 1850, 3rd. ed.,
Shows Scotland including the Hebrides and Orkney islands.
Fort Augustus Abbey
Isole piu famose del mondo, vol. 1.