notes Keer 1605

	Research Notes Map Group KEER 1605

Keer 1605
	Map, Southamptoniae, or Southampton, ie Hampshire, scale about 17.5 miles to 1 inch, by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1599-1610, published 1605-1676.
	The map feature notes have been made from a copy of Keer's map published about 1637, in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:KD1996.3. Another copy of the map, probably from the edition published in 1620, item HMCMS:FA1999.88 has the text for Hampshire on the back. This text has been transcribed. And there are pages in the Collection from Keer's Atlas of 1627, item HMCMS:KD1996.17, including title, preface and eight pages of text.
	PIETER van den KEERE
	MAP FEATURES from map of 1666
	DESCRIPTIVE TEXT from map of 1620
	TEXT from atlas of 1627
	PUBLISHING HISTORY
	REFERENCES
	ITEMS in the Collection

PIETER van	den KEERE
	Pieter van den Keere was born about 1571, perhaps the son of Henri van den Keere, Ghent, Netherlands. He was an artist, engraver and bookseller; worked for some time in London, probably with Jodocus Hondius who married his sister; later returned to Amsterdam; died about 1646. His name is often anglicised to Peter Keer; and sometimes latinised to Petrus Kaerius.
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MAP FEATURES	from map of 1666
	This map is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:KD1996.3.
title strapwork cartouche	The map has a strapwork cartouche. The upper part:- SOUT / HAMPTON. The lower part carries the scale.
map maker	The map has no maker's name, but is recognizable as Keer's map. The maps in the atlas published in Amsterdam, about 1605, were drawn about 1599, only a few have his name on them 'Petrus Kaerius'.
scale line scale old english mile	In the lower of the title cartouches is a scale line 10 miles, chequered in miles, labelled:- Sala Miliarum 10 miles = 18.8mm, wrongly assuming a modern statute mile - the scale is thus 1 to 856034. The map scale is about:- 1 to 860000 14 miles to 1 inch A better estimate of the scale is made from town positions, comparing to known town-town distances using DISTAB.exe. The map scale is about:- 1 to 1100000 16.5 miles to 1 inch The map maker's mile is an:- Old English Mile = 1.25 statute miles
orientation labelled borders	The left and right map borders are labelled:- Occidens Oriens for west and east.
sea area sea moire effect	There is some attempt at moire effect sea.
coast line coast shaded	The coast is shaded with horizontal lines extended into harbours and river mouths.
coastal defence castles	The coastal defence castles are drawn and labelled at:- Hurst cast Calshot cast Netley cast S. Andros
rivers bridges	Rivers are shown by wiggly lines tapering in from the river mouth, the lines stay quite wide and bold. Most are not named, but see:- Test flu Some bridges are indicated, at Romsey, Stockbridge, and out of the county.
relief	Relief is mostly ignored. There is a hill:- which is probably 'Old Winchester Hill' near Clanfield.
forests woods	Forests are clearly shown by groups of trees, not named, not even the New Forest. It is possible to recognize most of the forests.
county swash lettering	The county boundary is a dotted line Swash lettering is used to fill space and label the adjoyning counties and the sea area south of Chichester
settlements	The position of settlements is shown by a dot and circle plus other elements suggesting their size.
city town	dot, double circle, tower; labelled lowercase upright text, eg:- Winchester Andoner

village	dot, circle and tower; labelled lowercase italic text, eg:- Ripley There is one settlement, Bisthorne north of Christchurch which has dot, circle, but no tower - I am inclined to think this is a mistake not meaningful.
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DESCRIPTIVE	TEXT from map of 1620
	These notes and transcription are made from the map of Hampshire, by Peter Keer, about 1620. The map is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA1999.88. This example of the map has [part of] the descriptive text for Hampshire on the reverse:-
	HANT-SHIRE.
	CHAPTER. VI.
	HANT-SHIRE, lying upon the West of England, is borderered upon the North by Barkshire, upon the East with Surrey and Sussex, upon the South with the British Seas, and Ile of Wight, and upon the West with Dorset and Wilt-shire.
	2 The length thereof from Blackwater in the North upon Surrey, unto Bascomb in the South upon the Sea, extended in a right line, is fiftie foure English miles: and the breadth drawne from Peters-field iin the East, unto Tidworth in the West, and confines of Wilt-shire, is little lesse than thirtie miles, the whole Circumference about one hundred fiftie and five miles.
	3 The Aire is temperate, though somewhat thick by reason of the Seas, and the many Rivers that through the Shire do fall, whose plentie of fish and fruitfull increase, doe manifoldly redeeme the harmes which they make.
	4 The Soile is rich for Corne and Cattel, pleasant for pasturage, and plenteous for woods; in a word, in all commodities either for Sea or Land, blessed and happy.
	5 Havens it hath, and those commodious both to let in, and to loose out Ships of great burden in trade of Merchandise, or any other imployments: whereof Portsmouth, Tichfield, Hamble, and South-hampton are the chiefe: besides many other creeks that open their bosomes into those Seas, and the Coast strengthened with many strong Castles, such as Hurst, calshot, South-hampton, S. Andrewes, Worth, Porchester, and South Castle, besides other Bulwarks, or Blockhouses that secure the Countrey: and further in the Land, as malwood, Winchester, and Odiam, so strong, that in the time of King John, thirteene English-men onely defended the Fort for fifteene dayes against Lewis of France, that with a great Host assaulted it most hotly.
	6 An-[ ]
	The text continues on the reverse of another map!
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TEXT	from atlas of 1627
	These notes are made from the title and early pages of an atlas of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, by Peter Keer, 1627. The example studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museum Service, item HMCMS:KD1996.17.
	TITLE PAGE
	The title page has pictures of 'A DANE' and 'A NORMAN' warriors, the title in a scroll cartouche with cherubs, coats of arms and fantastical faces:-
	England Wales Scotland / and Ireland Described / and Abridged With ye Historic / Relation Of things worthy memory / from a farr Larger Voulume / Done by / John Speed
	Anno / Cum privilegio / 1627
	And are to / bee sould by / Georg Humble / at ye Whit horse / in popeshead / Alley
	TABULATION
	After the first page of chapter 1 is a tabulation:-
	A Catalogue of all the Shires, Citties, Bishoprickes, Market Townes, Castles, Parishes, Rivers, Bridges, Chases, Forrests, and Parkes, conteyned in every particular shire of the Kingdom of England.
	The table header is:-
	Shires / Cities / Bishopricks. / Mark Tounes. / Castles / Parish Church / Rivers / Bridgs / Chases / Forrests. / Parkes.
	The entry for Hampshire is:-
	Hant-shire / 01 / 01 / 18 / 05 / 248 / 04 / 31 / 00 / 04 / 22
	CHAPTER 1
	A transcription of Chapter 1 can be found in:-
	Old Hampshire Mapped

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PUBLISHING	HISTORY
	Published in a collection of about 33 maps of the counties of England and Wales, with 6 maps of Scotland, and maps of the four Provinces of Ireland which was probably assembled as an atlas at or before 1610.
	The 1605-10 map is without the name Petrus Kaerius which is on some other counties' sheets.
	There are several sheets of ms text following each map in the BM copy of the 1605-10 atlas but the reverse of the map is plain; the atlas size is 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 ins.
	Beware that Chubb dates the maps to 1599.
	Published by William Jansson Blaeu in 'Guilielmi Camdeni, Viri Clarissimi Britannia, sive florentissimorum Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, & Insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio. In epitomen contracta a Regnero Vitellio Zirizaeo, & Tabulis chorographicis illustrata. Amstelredami, Ex officina Guilielmi Ianssonij, M.DC.XVII.' ie 1617.
	The 1617 map has page number '156'; the atlas has a map of Great Britain and Ireland; the atlas size is 3 1/2 x 5 5/8 ins.
	Published in 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged with ye Historic Relation of things Worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume Done by John Speed. Anno Cum privilegio 1620. And are to bee sould by Georg Humble at ye Whit horse in popeshead Alley.' 1620.
	The 1620 atlas has an illustrated title page, and text including a catalogue of shires, cities, etc etc; the atlas size is 5 x 3 5/8 ins.
	The 1620 map title is translated from the Latin of the 1605 map, which is otherwise unchanged, the scale line is still headed in Latin; on the back of the 1620 map is text in English describing the county, abridged from Speed's atlas of 1611; there is additional text at the back of the atlas.
	There are editions and reprints of the atlas in 1627, 1630, 1646.
	Published in 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described ... And are to bee sould by Roger Rea the Elder & younger, at ye Golden Crosse in Cornhill against ye Exchange Anno cum privilegie 1662.'
	Published in an edition 1665; there is but one copy of this edition known.
	Published in editions 1666 and 1668 in which the Hampshire map has the text for Surrey on the reverse.
	Published in an edition 1676 in which Hampshire has its own text again
	The 1676 edition has a second title page 'An Epitome of Mr John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain. And of His Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World ... London, Printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet street, and Ric. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1676.
	The dates of editions of this little atlas are usually about the years in which the larger Speed's 'Theatre' were republished.
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REFERENCES
	Blaeu, William Jansson: 1617: Guilielmi Camdeni, Viri Clarissimi Britannia ...: (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
	: 1620: England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged: Humble, George (London)
	: 1662: England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described: Rea, Roger snr & Rea, Roger jnr (London)
	Crone, G R: 1948: Early Atlases of the British Isles: Book Handbook: no.6: pp.341-344
	Skelton, R A: 1950: Pieter van den Keere: Library, The: ser.5 vol.5: pp.130-32
	Keuning, J: 1960: Pieter van den Keere: Imago Mundi: 15: pp.66-72
	Taylor, E G R (ed): 1951: Atlas of England and Wales, An (forty plates from Speed's pocket atlas 1627): (London)
also see:-
	related map group -- Bill 1626
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ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:FA1998.17 -- title page
	HMCMS:FA1999.88 -- map
	HMCMS:KD1996.3 -- map
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