Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

A general atlas being a collection of maps of the world and quarters with a geographical clock and mariners compass

Authors

• Isherwood, Mary

Call number

Ms. Codex 224
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580604
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580604

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

between 1781 and 1783

Place

England

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page.
   

Extent

64 leaves : 340 x 260 mm. bound to 350 x 277 mm

Foliation

Paper, 64 leaves; [iv], 1-5, [iii], 6, [iii], 7-10, [ii], 11-12, [ii], 13-14, [ii], 15-16, [ii], 17-18, [ii], 19-20, [ii], 21-22, [ii], 23-24, [ii], 25-26, [ii], 27-28, [ii], 29-30, [ii], 31-32, [ii], 33-34, [ii], 35-36, [ii], 37-38, [ii], 39-40, [ii], 41-42, [ii], 43-44, [ii], 45-46, [ii], 47-50, [ii], 51-52, [ii], 53-54, [ii], 55-56, [ii], 57-58, [ii], 59-60, [ii], 61-62, [ii], 63-64, [i], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-128], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Stanley Smith (London), 1961.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Atlases
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• 3 — Table of contents, p. 3

Decorations

• 10 — Map, World, p. 10
• 11 — Map, World, p. 11
• 14 — Map, Mercator's chart, p. 14
• 15 — Map, Mercator's chart, p. 15
• 22 — Map, Europe, p. 22
• 26 — Map, England and Wales, p. 26
• 30 — Map, Ireland, p. 30
• 34 — Map, Scotland, p. 34
• 38 — Map, Germany, p. 38
• 42 — Map, Seven United Provinces, p. 42
• 46 — Map, Netherlands, p. 46
• 50 — Map, France, p. 50
• 53 — Map, Spain and Portugal, p. 53
• 58 — Map, Poland Russia, p. 58
• 62 — Map, Switzerland, p. 62
• 66 — Map, Hungary, p. 66
• 70 — Map, Turkey in Europe, p. 70
• 74 — Map, Italy, p. 74
• 78 — Map, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, p. 78
• 82 — Map, Russia in Europe, p. 82
• 86 — Map, Asia, p. 86
• 90 — Map, East Indies, p. 90
• 94 — Map, Moguls Empire and India Beyond the Ganges, p. 94
• 100 — Map, Turkey in Asia, p. 100
• 104 — Map, Russian Empire in Asia, p. 104
• 108 — Map, p. 108
• 112 — Map, North America, p. 112
• 116 — Map, United States of America, p. 116
• 120 — Map, South American, p. 120
• 124 — Map, West Indies, p. 124