[MR] Of interest to Scadians: earliest map of Scotland

[Garth G. Groff]

M'Lord Donal and friends,

It appears that you are correct. Apparently the links don't work outside 
the pages where they nest.

You can see the BBC version at 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/default.stm . Scroll down 
and look along the right side for "Scotland's Big Picture".

To see the museum version, point your browser to Scottish National 
Libraries or http://www.nls.uk . Click on "Digital Libraries", then 
"Maps", followed by "Maps of the Whole of Scotland 1560-1928". From the 
list select the first entry "1558-1566 - Anon - Scotia: Regno di 
Scotia". This will get you to a page devoted to just the Forlani map, 
which includes a blow-up link.

Sorry for problems. It all seemed so simple.

Kind regards,


Mungo Napier, Archer of Mallard Lodge
(mka Garth Groff) <http://www.nls.uk/maps/scotland/detail.cfm?id=126>** 
<http://www.nls.uk/maps/scotland/index.html>

jbrmm266 at aol.com wrote:
> Neither the second link nor the zoom-in on the first link will work 
> for me.  :-(
>  
> Regretfully
> Donal
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth G. Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org; isenfir at virginia.edu
> Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 7:39 am
> Subject: [MR] Of interest to Scadians: earliest map of Scotland
>
> Noble friends, 
>  
> I just spotted this on the BBC: 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/in_pictures_enl_1258359852/html/1.stm 
> . This is the Forlani map of Scotland, dated to as early as 1558. Too 
> small for good viewing? Then try this catalog page from the Scottish 
> National Library: http://www.nls.uk/maps/scotland/detail.cfm?id=126 . 
> Note the enlargement button. You can blow this thing up to a rather 
> large size, though only in pieces. 
>  
> Kind regards, 
>  
> Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot 
> (mka Garth Groff) 
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