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Issue 6 of the Project Pont Newsletter has now been
published. Free copies are available (and copies of back
numbers) from the address below.
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The next PROJECT PONT SEMINAR will be held at New Lanark
on SATURDAY 1 APRIL 2000, 10.15 - 16.30.
This seminar, the fourth in the series of Project Pont
Seminars organised by the National Library of Scotland,
explores a wide range of subjects relating to Timothy
Pont's 16th century maps of Scotland.
Topics include architecture and archaeology, towns and
placenames, surveying methods and symbols, and analysis of
the maps themselves. Three papers are also of local
Clydesdale interest. Following requests after the last
seminar, Jeffrey Stone will start the day with an overview
of Pont and his maps, particularly aimed at people who have
not attended previous seminars.
COST £15.00 per head to include: sandwich lunch, morning
& afternoon tea or coffee
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PROGRAMME
Dr Jeffrey Stone (Aberdeen University): INTRODUCING PONT
AND HIS MAPS
Christopher Fleet (National Library of Scotland): "MANIE
THINGS FALSE"? REASSESSING THE VALUE OF TIMOTHY PONT'S
TEXTUAL NOTES
Dr Pat Dennison (Edinburgh University): PONT'S TOWNS:
PERCEPTIONS OR PRESUMPTIONS?
Dr Allen Simpson (formerly National Museums of Scotland):
MEASURING AND PRACTICAL SURVEY: A 16TH CENTURY CONTEXT FOR
PONT
Dr Jeffrey Stone (Aberdeen University): PONT'S
UNCONVENTIONAL SYMBOLS
Tam Ward (Biggar Museum Trust): UPPER CLYDESDALE - BASTLE
HOUSES AND PONT
Dr Simon Taylor (St Andrews University): PONT AND THE
PLACENAMES OF LESMAHAGOW
Prof Charles McKean (Dundee University): FINNART'S
FIEFDOM; THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HAMILTONS, SOMERVILLES,
FLEMINGS AND DOUGLASES
For information contact:
Project Pont
Map Library
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
Edinburgh EH9 1SL
Scotland UK
Email maps@ nls.uk
Tel 0131-466 3813
Fax 0131-466 3812
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ABOUT PROJECT PONT
Around 1583, Timothy Pont, a young St Andrews graduate,
began his remarkable task of mapping Scotland - the first
person to do so in any detail as far as is known. The
reasons for his initiative are still obscure, but 77
manuscript maps attributed to Pont have survived, now held
in the National Library of Scotland. Pont's manuscripts
are the basis for the printed maps of Scotland
(Scotland's first atlas) in volume 5 of Blaeu's Atlas Novus
(1654).
One of the finest surviving collections of its kind, Pont's
manuscript maps have the research potential for a unique
insight into all aspects of 16th century Scotland, its
history, geography, architecture and landscape. New
scanning technology and the quatercentenary of Pont's only
dated map (Clydesdale, 1596) provide the special impetus
for inaugurating PROJECT PONT.
The Projects aims are:
- to stimulate further multi-disciplinary research on Pont,
his maps and the context of his work
- to establish a record of data relating to his work - to
disseminate work on Pont - to liaise with other researchers
Timescale 1996-2000
See a few selected details from Pont's manuscripts at
http://www.nls.uk
National Library of Scotland - Digital Library - Highlights
of the Map Collection
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Diana Webster Head of Map Library
National Library of Scotland
Email [log in to unmask] 33
Salisbury Place Tel 0131-226 4531 x 3411
Edinburgh EH9 1SL Fax 0131-466 3812
Scotland, UK
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