Scotia regnum. /
Mercator, Gerhard,1512-1594.
Hondius, Hendrik,1573-
[Amsterdam : H. Hondius,
1630].
Relief showm pictorially.
Text on verso in Latin with heading Scotia, decorated letter B, beginning "Britanniae Insulae Borealior pars Scotia dicitur ..."
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.
The text, pagination and binders mark show this issue of the map to be from either the 1623 or 1630 issues of the "Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura" by Hendrik Hondius ; the maps of north and south Scotland with which "Scotia regnum" is associated clearly show they were from the 1630 issue and so this map has also been attributed with that date.
Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued.
Shows latitude and longitude from Ferro meridian.
Hand coloured coasts, rivers and borders.
Dotted sea.
On verso: pages numbered 57, 58.
Binders mark: X.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
EMS
Scotland with Hebrides and Orkney.