Norfolk-Norwich-1595 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20571

Map Date:

[1595]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.24.a.5

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Norwich

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG233087

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 2208

Map title:

'Nordovicium, Angliae civitas.'

Comments on map:

Raymond Frostick's no.3. Derived from Braun & Hogenburg [Exeter 18464] and Cuningham [Exeter 20570], with similar scale characteristics. In Raccolta di le piu illustri citta di tutto il mondo, Venice, 1595, fol.91.

Scale:

1:24,000*

Map-maker:

Fr. Valezo [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.3 x 8.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

Frostick's no.3. BLML Maps c.24.a.5; Norwich Library Box XI [1595]; BLML Maps c.25.a.10 [1600?: in Teatro delle piu illustri...];

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Faces: in cartouche.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

General pictorial effect for hills and cultivated ground, with man and woman bottom right.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal: [Frostick notes that these are reversed].

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560