Oxfordshire-Oxford-1588 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19365

Map Date:

1588

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Oxfordshire

Town name:

Oxford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP513063

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 5206

Map title:

'Celeberrimae Oxoniensis academiae aularum et collegiorum aedificus totius Europae magnificentissimis cum antiquissima civitate coniunctae elegans simul et accurata descriptio Radulpho Agaso autore ano dni 1578'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from Oxford Historical Society version. Scales treated as 1 inch to 30 paces (using a 60-inch pace, this is 1:1800) on basis of scale bar, which is graduated in Particularum, Pass, Vilarum. Notes in Latin and English around the map, including one in English as to the author's apprehensions as to publishing it until he had made that of London.

Scale:

1:1800

Map-maker:

Ralph Agas [sv], Augustine Ryther [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

116 x 84

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BOL [original]; BLML Maps K.Top.34.9, BOL Gough maps Oxfordshire 1, 2, 3, 2027.a.55, (E)C17:70 Oxford (118), MS.Top.Oxon c.16, CUL Maps.aaa.17.G.17 [Whittlesey, 1728]; BLML Maps 15.e.30(2), BOL (E)C17:70 Oxford (21), Gough Maps Oxon 1, CUL Atlas.2.89.9 [Whittlesey, 1728; BOL G.A.Oxon.a.41(7) [1732: Stapleton]; Ox HS 1898]; BOL Gough Maps Oxfordshire 4, G.A.Fol.B.33,33*, G.A.Oxon.a.4(7) (11A), RGS Eng & Wales S.98 [1732 reissue]; BL 599.i.5 [in Nichols, Progress Q.Eliz, 1805]; BLML Maps 4735(16), BOL G.A. Fol. A111, CUL Ii.11.3 [Skelton reduction: in J. Skelton, Oxonia antiqua restaurata, 1823]; BOL G.A.Oxon a.41(10) [1823-1889: photolitho pub Jackson's Oxford Journal]; BOL G.A. Oxon 4o 65 [1831: in Oxford delineated, pb J. Whessell & T. Bartlett]; BLML Maps 15.e.30(1), BOL Manning fol. 42, CUL Atlas.2.89.9, TNA [PRO] Library [Ox HS, 1899]; VCH 4, 88 [Whessel & Bartlett, 1831, in [T. Joy], Oxford delineated]; BOL G.A. Oxon c.331/4=R [1979: in History of county of Oxford, IV, facsimile pub O.U.P.].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Osney Abbey ruins [with note in cartouche as to its foundation].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Britannia, Justice, writing nude figures, etc, round title. Mercury, with winged hat and shoes, holds one end of the scale, and brandishes dividers.

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Britannia, Justice, writing nude figures, etc: round title; Mercury: holds scale.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

university colleges, royal arms, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560