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Factice atlas containing 21 plans of fortified towns. The volume is bound in leather,...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/138
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This record is about the Factice atlas containing 21 plans of fortified towns. The volume is bound in leather,... dating from [?c1695] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPH 1/138
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?c1695]
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Factice atlas containing 21 plans of fortified towns. The volume is bound in leather, without decoration or contemporary title on the face or spine. A label affixed to the front cover is inscribed in a 19th-century hand: 'Atlas of French Forts (very old)'. Although most of the towns depicted are still in France, a few are now in Belgium or Germany. Detailed descriptions of the maps are given at item level.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1036; WO 38/66; WOD 66
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- Public Record(s)
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- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Assuming the title 'Atlas of French Forts (very old)' to be accurate - that is that all the forts were French when the maps were drawn - the volume may be tentatively dated [?c 1695], since Landau was a French possession from 1680 to 1815, Mons from 1691 to 1697, and Ypres from 1678 to 1713. The plans appear all to have been made at the same time.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 968.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561945/
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