Oxfordshire-Oxford-1675 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19368

Map Date:

1675

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:

'Nova & accuratissima celeberrimae universitatis civitatisque Oxoniensis scenographia'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from Oxford Historical Society issue (1899). Scale measured as 1 inch to 275 feet (1:3300). References 1-50 in English on right; nos 1-31 (to colleges) duplicated in Latin on left. Marked lack of street names.

Scale:

1:3300

Map-maker:

Dav. Loggan [author, eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

52.5 x 40.8

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BL print Room; BL 638.l.18, K.128.h.10; BOL Gough Maps 57 (f.2), (E)C17:70 Oxford (12), Wood 276b, fol XXXI, Arch. Antiq. AII 13(2), Gough Maps 58(2), MS.Top.Oxon C.15(1), BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part II; BLML K.Top.34.10 [Overton 1710]; CUL Maps.bb.17.G.24 [1715.c: Overton]; OxCL MP 214 [uncertain state]; BLML Maps 15.e.30(4), BOL (E)C17:70 Oxford (22), Manning fo.42, R.Top, CUL Atlas.2.89.9, TNA [PRO] Library, VCH 4, 92-3 [Ox HS, 1675/1899]; CUL 455.c.93.61 [1932: in A. Clark, etc, The life & times of Anthony a Wood]; BOL (E)C17:70 Oxford (113), CUL Maps.bb.81.97.2 [1971: Science Studio, Oxford]; BOL G.A. Oxon b.210 [1675/1973: in Old Oxford, pb Steeple Books]; BOL G.A. Oxon c.331/4=R [1979: in A history of the county of Oxford, IV, pub O.U.P. 1979].

Gardens:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: city from east.

Symbolic elements:

Mermaid-like figures, figures with pen and shepherd's crook: surround dedication.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Mermaid-like figures on each side of dedication: figures with pen and shepherd's crook on top.

Arms and heraldry:

dedicee of map, university colleges, municipal: [University; not colleges].

Dedicee of map:

Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford.

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560