Gloucestershire-Bristol-1631 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19781

Map Date:

[1631]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps.c.26.a.37

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Bristol

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST585730

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5773

Map title:

'Brightstowe in Engellandt'.

Comments on map:

In [Daniel Meisner], Libellus novus politicus emblematicus civitatum pars septima, oder Neiueen politischen statt. und emblematabuchs sievende cheil darinen das siebende ioo statt, vestung, schlosse, und slecke, so Dalingen, in Lothringden, Franckreich, Engeland und Hispanien, &. Littera. G., [Nuremburg], 1700 [no author or place of publication in BLML copy]. Top right: G45. Above 'map': 'Multiab ebrietate sedununtur.' Below 'map': 'Ebrietas multus captat potando bibaces, Ac his ante diem, fata cruenta parat.' and 'Biel sangen thut die Trunchenheit, / Und todtet durch unmessigleit, / All vollsautfer die fahren bin / Inn nobis trug, ift ihr gervin.' Mapping presumably derives from Braun & Hogenburg. For further notes see Exeter 19783.

Scale:

1:21,120*

Map-maker:

[Daniel Meisner [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.3 x 9.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.26.a.37 [1700]; BOL R.Top.210, CUL P478.c.1.44, Gloucester Library, Gloucestershire RO [open access] [1927: in J.E. Pritchard, Old plans and views of Bristol, Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucstershire Archaeological Society, 48, 1926].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At bottom of mapped area: on left a monkey drinks from a large hooded pot, and on right a man aims a gun at him.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: Towers with conical roofs.

Ordnance Survey's

1879-82

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560