Map of Scotland of 1573 by Abraham Ortellius

This is a reproduction of the best map of Scotland up to the middle of the sixteenth century.  When this map was created by Abraham Ortellius in Antwerp, Mary Queen of Scots was in an English prison and her young son James VI was seven years old.  This "Table of Scotland" was part of the atlas series produced by Ortellius,  the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, “Theatre of the Orb of the Earth(s)”.   The original map is 18.3 inches wide and 13.6  inches high.

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