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FA2001.7:-
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Chart, uncoloured engraving, Beschrijvinghe der Zee Custen van Engelandt
tuschen Wicht ende Doveren - Map of the Sea Coast of England between Wight and
Dover, scale about 1 to 470000, 7 or 8 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Johannes van
Doetecum, 1583, published in Die Spieghel der Zeevaeri - the Mariners Mirror, by
Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Enchuisen, Netherlands, 1584.
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This example of the chart has descriptive text in Dutch on the reverse. Notice
that the scale lines are dutch and spanish miles; Spain ruled part of the
Netherlands at this time though the Dutch were attempting to found an
independent Holland, and that the Spanish Armada was in 1588.
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The Hampshire places on the chart include Lemton - Lymington, Hampton -
Southampton, and Porsmout - Portsmouth.
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map feature:-
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not coloured & title cartouche & strapwork cartouche & compass rose
(and rhumb lines) & up is N (about NNW by N) & scale line (spanish and
dutch miles) & sea waves & sea monsters & ships & depth
soundings & sandbanks & anchorages & coast appearance & rivers
& settlements (along the coast) |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
Beschrijvinghe der Zee Custen van Engelandt / tuschen Wicht ende Doveren,
met die princi: / pale havenen ende gedaenten des selu~e Landts. / Doer / Lucas
Jansz Wagenaer va~ Enchuijse~. / Cum gratia et Privilegio as decennium.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- lower left
Io~es a Doetecu~
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 53x39.5cm |
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wxh, map = 505x321mm |
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scale = 1 to 470000 ? (crude estimate using the positions of Portsmouth and
Dover) |
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Map Group -- Waghenaer 1583 -- with Research Notes
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town names:-
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Portchester
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Hampshire
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map name
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modern name
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Portchester
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Fareham
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Lemton
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Lymington
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Portsmout
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Portsmouth
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Hampton
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Southampton
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
