In the end they were collated and revised by James Gordon, parson of Rothiemay (what is it about ministers and maps?) and they were published in Joan Blaeu's Atlas Novus, volume 5, Amsterdam, 1654. James VI gave instructions that the manuscript maps should be purchased from Pont’s heirs and prepared for publication, but ‘on account of the disorders of the time they were nearly forgotten’. I looked hopefully for Bunessan Mill, but of course it was built 150 years after Timothy Pont died, having almost completed his huge task of mapping Scotland. The symbol for a mill looks like a hot-cross bun.
We have a very helpful document: Guide to Symbols on Pont’s Manuscript Maps, from the Map Library there, showing how he recorded, as well as place names, natural and man-made features. The originals of his maps are preserved in the National Museum of Scotland. By now those buildings may be ruined, but Pont can give us a glimpse of what they looked like.Ī contemporary described how Pont "personally surveyed.and added such cursory observations on the monuments of antiquity.as were proper for the furnishing out of future descriptions". He also used a whole range of symbols, which he called ‘characters’ – like the ones we are used to seeing on Ordinance Survey maps. His ‘manuscript’ maps (that is ‘hand-drawn’) include thumbnail sketches of buildings like castles or abbeys. So he was an artist too, which was very useful in the days before photography. In connection with the project he made a complete survey of all the shires and islands of the kingdom, visiting remote districts, and making drawings on the spot. Pont was also an accomplished mathematician. And he was the surveyor for them: a topographer. His maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey. He was the first person to produce a detailed map of Scotland. In 1601 he became minister of Dunnet Parish Church in Caithness, and left there in 1614, but his parishioners must have missed him in the pulpit for the whole of 1608 when he took a year’s leave ‘to map Scotland’. Travelling conditions would have been very different then. Timothy studied at St Andrews, then took several gap years – in fact he spent more than ten years in the 1580s and 90s travelling round Scotland. He was the son of Catherine and Robert Pont, and his father was a Church of Scotland minister in Edinburgh who was also a judge (folk in those days knew as much about multi-tasking as crofters on Mull today). He lived in Scotland between approximately 15. What qualifications do you need to be a cartographer, a mapmaker? Gaelic place names on the Ross – and their stories.The History of the Lighthouse Keepers' Houses on Erraid.Stories from the Stones - Discovering a history of Erraid.From Pennyghael near the Ben More mountains to Fionnphort at the tip of the peninsula, history is evident in the small communities and abandoned townships. Trending Questions What two-word term do astronomers use to designate the half of the celestial sphere which is south of the celestial Equator? Was Edwin Hubble an astronomer? Are Asteroids made up of dust and ice.The Ross of Mull peninsula is fringed with stunning coastal scenery of rocky coves, natural woodland and shell-sand beaches. The noun phrase 'orbis terrarum' means, literally, 'of the circle of lands,' a common Latin idiom for 'world'. The adjective 'novi' means 'new', also genitive singular. The conjunction 'sive' is a disjunctive 'or' (i.e., 'or instead'). The adjective 'totius' means 'entire, whole' it is genitive singular to agree with 'orbis'. The noun 'tabula' means 'tablet', sometimes in the sense of a painted image. In a word-by-word translation, the adjective 'nova' means 'new'. This means " a new picture of the whole, or rather of the new, world." Nova tabula totius sive novi orbis terrarum Because Latin word order is so free, we can more easily make sense of this quotation by rearranging the words into a more English-like order:
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