Scope and Contents

Includes other plans, undated.

Scope and Contents

A volume of county maps outlined in colour, with decorative cartouches in pen and wash. They are preceded by an index (folio i) and a map of the whole of Scotland showing the counties. The maps are based on ‘A general map of Scotland and Islands’ by James Dorret. They include a number of estates and the sites of several battles. The paper has the shield watermark with GR appendage used by James Whatman the younger from about 1762.

Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains the material outlined in ‘An account of the Scotish atlas’, pages 4-8:

(i) the general description of Britain (folio 2);

(ii) ancient Scotland (folio 3);

(iii) the description of the shires beginning with the Merse (folio 44).

At the end are tables of `The Longitudes and Latitudes of the most remarkable places` (folio 230 verso).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [circa 1682], of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.1.1);Maps, 1595-[circa 1682], originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald. (Adv.MS.15.1.2);‘A Defence or Vindication of the Scottish History and of the Scottish Historians...