Hiberniae regnum tam in praecipuas Ultoniae, Connaciae, Laceniae et Momoniae : quam in minores earundem provincias et ditiones divisum ex prototype Guil. Petty-Vischeriano deductu et exhibitum / a Joh. Bapt. Homanno
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- 1715
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With privilege statement, "cum privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj." Relief shown pictorially. Scales include "milliaria germanica", "milliaria gallica", "milliaria anglica", "milliaria hibernica". Decorative title and scale cartouches.
This hand-colored map of Ireland was published in 1715 by the firm of Nuremberg engraver and publisher Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724). It is based on earlier works by Nicolaes Visscher (1649-1702), of the second of three generations of Visschers who were art dealers and map publishers in Amsterdam, and Sir William Petty (1623–87), the pioneering English political economist who directed the nationwide cadastral survey of Ireland carried out under Oliver Cromwell in 1656–58. The map is in Latin, but place-names are in English and the original Celtic renderings into English. It has a decorative title cartouche and a scale cartouche. Four distance scales are provided: German, French, English, and Irish miles. Different colors are used to show the four historic provinces of Ireland: Connaught, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster. The map shows the counties and baronies within the provinces, archbishoprics, cities and towns, major roads, and other geographic features. The decorative cartouche i
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- Creator
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Subjects
- Ireland--Maps
Early maps - Type
- image
- Language
- Lt; English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724. Hiberniae regnum tam in praecipuas Ultoniae, Connaciae, Laceniae et Momoniae : quam in minores earundem provincias et ditiones divisum ex prototype Guil. Petty-Vischeriano deductu et exhibitum / a Joh. Bapt. Homanno. 1715. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1277. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724, (1715) Hiberniae regnum tam in praecipuas Ultoniae, Connaciae, Laceniae et Momoniae : quam in minores earundem provincias et ditiones divisum ex prototype Guil. Petty-Vischeriano deductu et exhibitum / a Joh. Bapt. Homanno. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1277
- MLA citation style
- Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1277>.