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11. Imago Mundi MS 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 22
Title:
Typescript of an article (?never published) by John Forsyth entitled 'Cook's Debt to Torres: Some Notes on the History of the Exploration and Cartography of the Torres Straits.'
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1960]
Extent:
1 folder containing 32 sheets

12. Imago Mundi MS 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 23
Title:
Notes, correspondence and photographs assembled by Skelton for an article (?never published) on two manuscript maps, one by John Dee, 1580 (Britain and the polar regions), with annotations by William Cecil, Lord Burghley; and the other by Robert Norman, 1581 (the coastline from southern England to the Straits of Gibraltar).
Scope & Content:
These maps had been discovered bound into Lord Exeter's copy of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum at Burghley House, Lincolnshire. Alexa Barrow's note says that after finding the photographs, she 'looked again at RAS's introduction to Lord Salisbury's book, and realised there must be notes somewhere. S...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966-1971
Extent:
1 bundle in envelope, in folder

13. Imago Mundi MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 24
Title:
Miscellaneous correspondence apparently unrelated to Imago Mundi.
Scope & Content:
The subjects, all fragmentary, include: a proposed bibliography of manuscript maps, 1953; the Berne Map, 1960; Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica, 1961; Skelton's agreement to sponsor Nico Israel's projected series Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1963; Cook charts, 1963; a project for facsimile reprod...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953-1968
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

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