Record ID:
292979
Accession number:
MA 665.19
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 map : hand col. ; 50.2 x 44 cm
Notes:
Prime meridian: Greenwich.
With red dots painted at 13 sites (matching locations mentioned in the penances of MA 665.1-14, and Cambridge).
Map has been cut into four quarters and mounted onto four subsequent pages in the volume.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.
Summary:
Showing boundaries (hand colored with yellow, pink or green wash), rivers, parks and settlements. Relief shown hachures. Including reference to the hundreds.
Provenance:
Purchased by J.W. Ford of Enfield Old Park at a public auction; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
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