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Cantebrigia opulentissimi Angliae Regni vrbs celeberrimi nominis, ab Academiae conditore Cantabro, cognomita a Granta fluuio vicino cairgrant, saxonib Grauntecestre, et Grantebrige iam olim nunucupata
Title
Cantebrigia opulentissimi Angliae Regni vrbs celeberrimi nominis, ab Academiae conditore Cantabro, cognomita [cartographic material] : a Granta fluuio vicino cairgrant, saxonib Grauntecestre, et Grantebrige iam olim nunucupata.
Published
[Cologne] : [Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg] ; [Antwerp] : [Philippe Galle], [1575]
Physical Description
1 map : hand col. engraving ; 33 x 44 cm, on sheet 41 x 52 cm.
Cartographic Detail
Scale not given.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. In later frame, 57 x 69 cm.
Notes
Relief and buildings represented pictorially.
Oriented with east at top.
Plate from part 2 of Civitates orbis terrarum, first printed in 1575 for Braun and Hogenberg in Cologne and Philippe Galle in Antwerp. (Krogt)
Source is a drawing by William Smith, engraved by Richard Lyne (Braun, G. Civitates orbis terrarum, 2008).
Summary
Bird's eye view of Cambridge, including Cambridge University, the castle, and surrounding fields with livestock. The castle is in the lower left corner, Jesus College and Christ College towards the top, and Peterhouse to center right. To left, the Tudor Royal Arms above floriated cartouche containing title; in upper right, a legend labeled "Hospitia Arcistar" and "Hospitia Juristar"; and in lower right, two male figures and one female figure in contemporary costume.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2014
References
Krogt, P.C.J. van der. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 4-2, 767
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Maps - England - Cambridge - Early works to 1800.
Engravings - Hand-colored - 1575.
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