Isole Hebride et Orcade.
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 some buildings, a few place names, rivers and woods.
Decoration: ornate title cartouche (right hand side); sea detail (stippled), elaborated windrose (with initials for wind's names printed around) and a sea monster.
On atlas' title page: "... intagliate da Girolamo Porro ...", possibly engraver of this map also?.
Map appears on page 4 of vol. 1, at head of text with title: Descrittione dell'Isole Hebridi, et Orcadi.
Map first issued in the Porcacchi's 1572 edition of L'Isole piu famose del mondo.
Imprint derived from atlas in which it appears.
Map measurements and scale taken from Moir's description.
Moir, D.G., Early maps of Scotland to 1850, 3rd. ed.,
Shows the Hebrides and Orkney islands including northern Scotland.
Fort Augustus Abbey
Isole piu famose del mondo, vol. 1.