Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1575 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18463

Map Date:

[1575]

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

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:

'Cantebrigia, opulentissimi Anglie Regni, urbs celeberrimi nominis, ab Academie conditore Cantabro, cognominata: A Granta, fluvio vicino, Cairgrant; saxonib. Graunteces Tre, et Grantebrige, iam olim nuncupata.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book 2, I. Cunning mix of birds' eye view and plan map. Latin title: otherwise English. [Prpospects of Windsor Castle and Oxford follow, but they are definitely not plans.]

Scale:

1:5000

Map-maker:

[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

44.6 x 32.8

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: Birds eye, in some detail.

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 13.e.10, BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 23, Gough Maps 21 Fol.21B [coloured] & 22, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.I, part IV, CUL Maps.FR.x.2; CUL Views.x.5,1,2,3, Maps.bb.53.57.3 [4 copies] [French text]; CUL Maps.bb.53.57.2 & 4 [German text]; CUL Maps.bb.17.G.147, Lx.7.12, Views.x.1,5, Atlas 4.57.3, Maps.bb.53.57.1, Views.x.1/7Maps.bb.53.57.6 (2 copies) [Latin text, various settings]; CUL Views.x.5,1, Maps.bb.53.57.5 (2 copies) [Jansson, c.1650]; CUL Maps.bb.17.Q.1, Views.x.1,10 [reduced version, London 1776]; Cambridgeshire RO R.56/23/1 [litho copy, c.1860]; CUL Views.x.1,3, Maps.bb.53.82.4a [King/White, 1823]; CUL Maps.bb.53.91.8, Maps.bb.53.91.2 [Illus Guide to Ch Congress, 1910]; 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.2 in J.Willis Clark & Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, 1921: BLML Maps 2.e.13]; BLML (anor edn); BOL G.Per.14 e [1971: in Bulletin SUC, 6(1)]; Cambridge City Library 1575.A; CUL Maps.bb.53(2).97.8 [1974]; CUL Maps.d.19.Q.1 [photo, 1981]; CUL Maps.c.19.Q.10-11 [Cambridge Society, 1984-5]; BOL C1 c.16 [1991: Studio Editions].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

In foreground: man paying address to woman, with another man approaching.

Symbolic elements:

Fruit and olive-branch in cartouche.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Numerous animals in fields round town.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms: [Without motto].

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560