Atlases.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Volumes of maps, with or without descriptive text, which may be issued to supplement or accompany texts or be published independently.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Atlas of plans, 1813, of Ulva, Gometra and Little Colonsay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9442
Scope and Contents
Includes other plans, undated.
Dates:
1813 and undated.
Atlas of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.9374
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.
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript of the English text of the `Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern` by Sir Robert Sibbald; with maps.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.1-15.1.1a
Dates:
1595-[Circa 1682.]
Microfilm of manuscript of English text of 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald, with originally inserted maps, and two versions of a treatise, by Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.330
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...
Dates:
1595-[circa 1682].