notes Jansson 1646

	Research Notes Map Group JANSSON 1646

Jansson 1646
	Map, Hantoniae Comitatus cum Bercheria, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724. This map of Hampshire and Berkshire is said to be derived from the separate county maps by Speed, in their post 1623 states. It includes coats of arms and the royal arms; there is text on the reverse; the map is printed 'up is East'. The map studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:ACM1934.14. This copy of the map is tinted. These notes concern Hampshire only.
	MAP FEATURES
	PUBLISHED
	TEXT PAGES from JANSSON'S ATLAS NOVUS, 1646-59
	REFERENCES
	ITEMS in the Collection
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MAP FEATURES
scroll cartouche title map maker	Printed lower right is a scroll cartouche with cherub, sheep, cow, farmer and sheaf of corn, and woodland:- HANTONIAE / COMITATUS / Cum BERCHERIA Hampshire County with Berkshire Printed lower left is:- Amstelodami / Apud Johannem Ja~ssonium. Amsterdam, the workshop of Johannes Jansson
orientation compass rose labelled borders up is W rhumb lines	The map has both compass rose and labelled borders. Printed lower left is a compass rose; star points for the cardinal, half cardinal, and false points, and lines for the by points. All directions are extended by rhumb lines across the sea area as far as the coast. North is marked by a fleur de lys, and east by a cross. The map is orientated with west at the top of the sheet, presumably a convenience have labels reading easily on a map on a double page spread in its atlas. The four borders are labelled:- Occidens Septentrio Oriens Meridies
scale lines scale old english mile	Printed upper right is a scroll cartouche with two scale lines:- Milliari Anglica. Milliari Germanica. english miles and german miles, the latter being 4 english miles each. The english scale line is chequered and labelled at 1 mile intervals. 6 miles = 47.5mm (561 pixels at 300dpi) giving a map scale 1 to 203294 on the bad assumption of an english statute mile. The map scale is about:- 1 to 200000 ? 3 miles to 1 inch A more reliable estimate of the scale is got by comparing the positions of a selection of places with their known positions, using DISTAB.exe. From this procedure the map scale is 1 to 249721, about:- 1 to 250000 ? 4 miles to 1 inch The map's english mile is:- old english mile = 1.23 statute miles
index grid	This map has no index grid. Calculations have been made to overlay the National Grid system on the map. For details, and how this grid can be used compare early county maps, and to index places, see:-
	Old Hampshire Mapped

	By comparing the headings of the towns from the centroids, and averaging, it is calculated that NGR north is -7.8 degrees from map north.
	The grid references of the map borders were calculated as:- bottom left SY835876 top left SP024265 top right TL125115 bottom right SZ936726
	This could be useful to present the map in a GIS system.
coat of arms heraldic border	It is hardly a 'border', but there is a double line of coats of arms across the upper centre of the map, supported by cherubs and ribbons. These are labelled:- Cliton a Saxon Ear: / le of Winchester Saer Quincy Earle / of Winchester Hugh Spencer Earle / of Winchester Lodowick Bruget E. / of Winchester William Paulet Earle / of Winchester Bogo or Beavous E. of Southampton / a famous warrior against ye Normans William Fitz William creat / ed earl of Southampton / by Kin. Henry Tho. Wriotheosley created Ear / of Southampton by Kin. Ed / ward 6 Anno [1]. and a blank shield.
sea area sea plain sandbanks	The small amount of sea are on the map is plain. The sea between the Isle of Wight's coast and the mainland is labelled:- THE BRITISH SEA and Titchfield Bay is labelled. A few sandbanks, off Hayling Island, in Langstone Harbour, and the Hurst and Calshot spits are dotted.
coast line coast shaded headlands harbours	The coast shaded horizontally. The foreshore flats off Hayling Island, the Hayling Shoal, are labelled:- The Mackett Two headlands are labelled:- Rameshead Hengestbury heade also note:- Black cliffe The only harbour labelled is:- Hamble haven
coastal defence castles	The coastal defence castles are shown by a circle, buildings, towers with flags, labelled:- Hurst castle Calshot castle S. Andrews Castle Worth ca. South castle Haselworth only has a circle; Southsea lacks a flag. No fortifications are shown at Portsmouth.
rivers bridges	River estuaries are shaded, as the coast line. Rivers are continued inland by a tapering wiggly line. Larger streams have a double line first, with a suggestion of form lines where broad enough. Some rivers are labelled, eg:- Avon flu Enborne Loddon flud Most of the main streams, and tributaries seem to be shown. The map has no roads, but it does show some bridges, clearly drawn by a double line crossing a river. There are examples east and west of Fareham, at Redbridge, etc. A bridge might be named, eg:- Knight bridge (it could be 'Kinght bridge') over the Enborne. A pond or lake is drawn at Highclere Park on the tributary to the Enborne, Fleet Pond is drawn, etc.
relief hillocks	Relief is indicated by groups of hillocks shaded to the right. The hillocks are sometimes quite knobbly, for example in the range running eastwards from Winchester, Magdalen Down. Dunbury hill is labelled against a range of hills north of Nether Wallop.
beacons	The map marks beacons by a post or posts on a hillock, perhaps labelled, eg:- Selborne Beacon [1 large post] Patow Beacons [3 small posts] Beacon The last naming a hamlet symbol by the river Itchen east of Toothill.
woods forests	There are groups of trees drawn for woodland or forests, some labelled, eg:- Limwood Beare Forest [East Bere Forest] West For. [West Bere Forest] NEW FOR Woodland areas are lightly tinted green.
parks	Parks are drawn by a ring of fence palings, shaded to the right, which is to the north. The park might enclose a settlement or house, and perhaps trees which are tinted green. The park or house might be labelled, eg:- Baropey Titchfeild house Grove place Titchfield Park is a double park, with the northern part wooded.
county	The county boundaries are dashed lines; remember the map is of two counties, Hampshire and Berkshire. The two counties are labelled, eg:- HANT / SHI: / RE. The detached part of Hampshire in West Sussex is included, labelled:- PART of HAMSHIRE. Adjacent counties are labelled, eg:- PART OF SURREY with or without flourishes on the lettering depending on how much space there is. Dotted lines delimit the adjacent counties. The county boundaries are each tinted on their county side: Hampshire yellow, Berkshire pink. Adjacent counties also have a tint: Dorset pink, Wiltshire green, Gloucestershire yellow, Oxfordshire greenBucks yellow, Surrey green, Sussex pink, Isle of Wight green. The detached part of Hampshire and the detached parts of Wiltshire are coloured to match their county. But Hayling Island and Whale Island are coloured pink? and Thorney Island green? Map colourists are said to have no interest in the 'four colour' theorem - which wasn't formulated, and then by a mathematician not a map maker, until the mid 19th century. However, just for fun, I note that it is possible to colour this uncomplicated map with three colours rather than the four used. Software MAPCOLOR.exe was used to colour the Jansson map of Hampshire and Berkshire; a colour for each county so that touching counties are coloured differently. Note that this map has detached parts which puts it outside the criteria for the four colour map theorem. It turns out that only three colors are necessary for the ten areas:-
	Hant Shire = yellow
	Bark Shire = pink
	Dorset Shire = pink
	Wilt Shire = green
	Glocester Shire = yellow
	Oxford Shire = green
	Buckingham Shire = yellow
	Surrey = green
	Sussex = pink
	Isle of Wight = pink
hundreds	Hundred boundaries are dotted lines, the areas labelled, eg:- FAWLEY HUND PART OF EVINGER HUND RINWOOD HUNDRED The larger hundred called 'Andover Hundred' is Andover Without Hundred or Andover Extra Hundred. The label:- Without is on the map attached to a hamlet symbol - an error copied from an earlier map. The hundred boundaries within a county are tinted the same as the county's boundary colour.
settlements	Settlements are positioned by a circle, and graded by added elements and text styles.
city	circle, buildings, towers; labelled in italic block caps, eg:- WINCHESTER The buildings are drawn all round the position circle, in front as well as behind, so that the circle is in the middle of the town viewed in perspective.

town	circle, buildings and tower; labelled in upright lowercase text, eg:- Andover Ringwood

village	circle, tower; labelled in italic lowercase text, eg:- Nether Wallop Micheldevor

hamlet	circle; labelled in italic lowercase text, eg:- Okehanger East Stratton The non existent hamlet of Without is noted above.

miscellaneous
mills water mills windmills	A water mill is drawn by a circle and rays, ie the water wheel, on the Bourne Rivulet north west of Hurstbourne. A windmill, a post mill, is drawn on a hillock near 'Katerington'.
copperas works	On the coast south west of Iford is:- Bascomb copperas house
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PUBLISHED
	Published in 'Joannis Janssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: In quo Magna Britannia, seu Angliae & Scotiae nec non Hiberniae, Regna exhibenetur. Tomus Quartus. Amstelodami. Apud Joannem Janssonium. Anno MDCXLVI.' ie 1646.
	The atlas has an illustrated title page, text taken from Camden's Britannia; there are maps of Insularum Britannicarum, of Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, of Britannia ... Heptarchia, and of Anglia Regnum; the maps are coloured; the atlas size is 9 1/2 x 16 1/4 ins.
	The map is published with little [no] change; Latin 1646, '59; French, 1646; German, 1647; Dutch, 1647.
	For example - in a French edition, 'Le Nouvelle Atlas ou Theatre du Monde, Auquel est represente la Grande Bretagne, Contenant les Royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irelande. Par Jean Jansson. Tome Quatriesme. Amstelodami, Apud Iohannem Ianssonium. Anno MDCXLVI.' 1646 and 1647.
	For example - in a German edition, 'Novus Atlas, oder Welt-Beschreibung, in welcher aussfuhrlich abgebildet die Konigreiche Engeland, Schotland, und Irland. Das funffte Theil. Amstelodami, Apud Joannem Janssonium. Anno MDCXLVII.' ie 1647.
	For example - in a Dutch edition 'Nieuwen Atlas, ofte Werelt-Beschrijvinghe, ... Het Verde Deel. Amstelodami, Apud Ioannem Ianssonium. Anno MDCLII.' ie 1652.
	The map may have been printed with the imprint of P Schenk and G Valk in 1683.
	Printed by John Overton, London, atlas 'III', about 1685.
	Published in 'Atlas Major, ex Novissimis, Selectissimisque, A Quovis Auctore Editis, Cum Generabilus Omnium Totius Orbis Terrarum Regnorum, Rerumpublicarum Et Insularum, Tum Particularibus in hisce sitarum Regionum Tabulis Geographicis, Juxta perfectissimam Itinerariam Seriem in hoc opere positis, consistens. Ad numerum 521 Tabularum; in Tres Tomos Divisus. Tomus I. Ex collectione Caroli Allard, Amstelo-Batavi. Amstelodami, Prostat apud Carolum Allard, Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae.' about 1705.
	The 1705 atlas includes coloured reprints of the county maps of 1647; it contains new maps by C Allard of the whole country etc.
	Published in 'Atlas Anglois, Ou Description Generale De L'Angleterre, Contenant Les Cartes Geographiques De chaque Province, avec les Genealogies des plus Illustres Familles, & les Archeveches & Eveches. A Londres, Chez David Mortier, Libraire. M.DCC.XV.' ie 1715.
	The 1715 atlas is a new edition of an atlas of 1714-15 which used Blaeu's map of Hampshire, this edition uses Jansson's map; the map has a Schenk and Valk imprint, plain on the reverse, no plate number; larger towns are shown with streets rather than a symbol; scales of latitude and longitude are added in the borders, but not a lat/long grid.
	Published in 'Atlas Anglois, Ou Description Generale De L'Angleterre, ... A Londres, Chez Joseph Smith, Marchand Libraire a l'Enseigne d'Inigo Jones, proche Exeter-Exchange dans le Strand. MDCCXXIV.' ie 1724.
	The map in the 1724 atlas is unchanged from 1715.
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TEXT PAGES	from JANSSON'S ATLAS NOVUS, 1646-59
	In the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museum Service, is an incomplete text in Latin from Britannia by William Camden, in Latin, from Atlas Novus vol.4, published by Johannes Jansson, Amsterdam, Holland, 1646-59. The pages have been torn from their volume, items HMCMS:FA2004.2.1 to FA2004.2.4.
	The page size is: wxh, sheet = 21x48cm. The sheets in the collection include:- parts of the preface; most of the the general description of the British Isles, with a preface about William Camden the atlas text organised by the territories of the British tribes. the Hampshire text on pages 105-111 a contents page an ?advertisement for the atlas.
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REFERENCES
	Jansson, John: 1646 & 1659: Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum & Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Jansson, Joannem (Amsterdam, Netherlands): vol 4
	: 1710: Atlas Major, ...: Allard, Carol (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
	: 1715: Atlas Anglois & Description Generale De L'Angleterre: Mortier, David (London)
	: 1724: Atlas Anglois: Smith, Joseph (London)
	Keuning, J: 1947: History of an Atlas, Mercator-Hondius: Imago Mundi: 4: pp.37-62
	Keuning, J: 1951: Novus Atlas of Johannes Jannsonius: Imago Mundi: 8: pp.71-98
also see:-
	Old Hampshire Mapped
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ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:ACM1934.14 -- map
	HMCMS:FA2004.2.1 -- page
	HMCMS:FA2004.2.2 -- page
	HMCMS:FA2004.2.3 -- page
	HMCMS:FA2004.2.4 -- page
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