Maps
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Basic Information:[edit | edit source]
Maps are useful to help find locative bynames (second names based on a location).
Sources:[edit | edit source]
Cartographica Neerlandica - https://orteliusmaps.com/index.html
- Maps by Ortelius (1527-1598) from his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum - http://www.orteliusmaps.com/ortindexarea.html
- List of Ortelius plates - https://orteliusmaps.com/ortindexalfa.html
Ortelius at the Library of Congress (zoomable, VERY NICE!) - https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00126/?st=gallery
Ortelius at Antique Maps Inc
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/55100/marca-brandburgensis-pomerania-quad-bussemacher
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/64230op/brandeburgum-marchionatus-cum-ducatibus-pomeraniae-et-mekeke-blaeu
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/61794/brandeburgensis-marchae-descriptio-ortelius
Joan Blaeu Atlas:
- Toonneel des Aerdrycks, ofte Nieuwe Atlas, six volumes (1648-1659), Regionaal Archief Leiden [link broken as of 9/2014]
- [Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlas Novus Volume I (1645), University of California, Los Angeles Library
- Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung, Volume II (1642), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
- Atlas of Scotland (1654), National Library of Scotland
FEEFHS Map Library - http://feefhs.org/maplibrary.html (a couple of maps with 16th century placenames toward the bottom)
Sanderus Antiquarius Antique Maps - http://www.sanderusmaps.com/en/
John Speed maps of Great Britain (1611-12) - http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/digital-maps/john-speed-proof-maps
Precedents:[edit | edit source]
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
From the <month> <year> LoAR:
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