Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1574 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20684

Map Date:

1574

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2.e.13

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Cambridge

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL449587

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 4459

Map title:

'Oppidum Cantebrigiae'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from version reproduced in J. Willis Clark and Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1921. For John Caio, Historia Cantebrigiensis Academiae. As much a birds' eye view as a plan: less sophisticated (or finished) in its approach than, say, the copperplate map of London. Descriptive note in latin, top right.

Scale:

1:3960*

Map-maker:

Ricd Lyne [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

30.0 x 43.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

EP

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges: Includes 'Hospitalia', i.e. halls.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.24.a.27(3), BOL Gough Cambr.3, CUL Sel.4.26,2 [originals]; CUL Cam.d.905.2 [in C.W. Stubbs, The story of Cambridge, 1905]; BLML Maps 2.e.13, BOL C17:70 Cambridge a.1, CUL 5696.c.92.2, CUL Atlas.2.92.1, RGS 1.C.94 [Pl.1 in J. Willis Clark & Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, 1921]; BL 731.k.21, CUL Ll.14.66, Cam.c.840.1; [1840 fac, in Fuller/Prickett, History of the University of Cambridge] Cambridge City Library T2/C/1 to T2/C/4-1574.A; CUL Maps.bb.53(2).93.4 [Robert Sayle, 1935]; BOL G.Per.14 e [1971: in Bulletin SUC, 6(1)]; CUL Maps.bb.53(2).97.11 [Camb City Cl, 1975]; Maps.c.53(2).97.27 [CUL, 1975].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

S

Symbolic elements:

Fruit, dragonflies, eels, face, boy's face: surround descriptive cartouche and reference to 'hospitalia'.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Fisherman alongside river, rowing boat in river, numerous grazing animals.

Arms and heraldry:

university colleges, royal arms, municipal

Miscellaneous religious group:

Former monastic establishments.

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560