Map Collection

Norden 1607
FA1997.2:- 
Map, engraving, Hamshire olim Pars Belgarum, county map of Hampshire, scale about 6 miles to 1 inch, by John Norden about 1595, version engraved by William Hole and published in Camden's Britannia, 6th Latin edition, about 1607.
map feature:-  title cartouche & compass rose & scale line & swash lettering (outside county boundary) & table of symbols (settlements etc) & county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements & rivers & woods & relief & hillocks & bridges (few) & sea pecked & ships & sea monsters
inscription:-  printed -on- map HAMSHIRE / OLIM PARS BELGARUM
inscription:-  printed -on- map (bottom right with scale line) Jo: Norden descripsit. WHole sculp
dimension:-  wxh, plate = 325x295mm
scale = 1 to 240000 ? (approx)

reference:-  Camden: 1607: Britannia
Norgate, Martin; Norgate, Jean: 1997: Notes from Norden's Map of Hampshire: Hampshire CC Museums Service:: ISBN 1 85975 131 8
  Map Group -- Norden 1607 -- with Research Notes

MN: 5.3.1997