Devonshire-Exeter-1631
CBTM:
18750
Map Date:
[? 1631]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps c.26.a.37, West Country Studies Library SM B/EXE/1700/MEI
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Exeter
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX921924
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 9392
Map title:
'Excester in Engellandt.'
Comments on map:
From [Daniel Mesiner], Libellus novus politicus emblematicus civitatum, pars septima, [Nuremburg], 1700 [but originally of circa 1631]; the author is omitted from the title-page of the BLML copy. [West Country Studies Library copy is loose.] Of Hooker-Speed-Braun & Hogenburg type, but does not derive from Exeter 18748 (more of St Davids church appears here). The snakes result in obliteration of St Thomas. At top of map is 'Immoderatus amor interitum causat' and 'G46'; at bottom (immediately below the snakes) is 'Inter sepentes mirabilis arte cupido est, Femina namae suum perdit amore virum.' and a four-line verse in German: 'Buder den schlangen ist wunderbahr / Die lieb, welch fuhrt in gross gefahr, / Das beiblein beist auss liebe freii, / Dem manlein seinen topft caisweii.' For more details see Exeter 19742.
Scale:
1:20,000*
Map-maker:
Daniel Meisner [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.3 x 9.8
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
BLML maps c.26.a.37, CUL Maps c.17.G.60, West Country Studies Library SM B/EXE/1700/MEI.
Relief:
'molehills'
Symbolic elements:
Snakes, one consuming another: at foot of map.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial crane by quay; two ships in river below.
Arms and heraldry:
uncertain: [Not town or see: look almost like 20th century mens briefs].
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
You can download the pdf version of this map
here