Kent-Canterbury-1588 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18467

Map Date:

1588

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Canterbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR151579

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 1562

Map title:

[Top:] Cantvarbvry', [right:], 'Cantuaria urbs fertilis simae Angliae celebris; Archiepisciopati sede, commendata.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book IV, 1. Title and some text in Latin; rest of exiguous text in English. [No grazing animals or other ruralia on this one.]

Scale:

1:3600*

Map-maker:

[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.8 x 28.9

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 13.e.10, BOL Gough Maps Kent 1, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part VIII ['original']; CUL P.479.c.71.25 [1902 facsim]; CUL Maps.c.67.97.6 [1970 fac]; Canterbury Library [no.3 in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

In foreground: two women and two men.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, royal arms, municipal: [Arms of both cathedral and archbishop].

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560