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Subject:

Project Pont Seminar

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Diana Webster <[log in to unmask]>

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Diana Webster <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 11 Jan 99 11:18:53 GMT

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PROPAGATING PONT: PROJECT PONT SEMINAR 1999

Saturday 30 January 1999, 10.30 - 16.30
                                                         
This seminar, the third in the series of Project Pont
Seminars organised by the National Library of Scotland
(NLS), explores a wide range of subjects relating to Timothy
Pont's 16th century maps of Scotland.
 
Topics include garden history, interpreting handwriting, and
discussion of Pont's methods. To reflect the location of the
seminar, Tayside is highlighted, with talks on placenames of
northwest Fife, and architectural history in Dundee and
Angus.

LOCATION: UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
Conference Room, Tower Building (First Floor), Nethergate, 
Dundee
_________________________________________________________
                                                     
PROGRAMME
 
CHRISTOPHER FLEET (NLS)
Inferences from inks: computer-assisted palaeography of the
Pont manuscripts.

CHRISTOPHER DINGWALL (GARDEN HISTORY SOCIETY)
"Gentlemens dwellings shaddowed with some little groves,
pleasant to the view": Pont's depiction of parks and
gardens.

MARILYN BROWN (RCAHMS)
Gardens from the air: Pont's depiction of Castle Menzies.
 
DR SIMON TAYLOR (ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY)
Placenames on Pont's manuscript map of northwest Fife.

DR JEFFREY STONE (ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY)
How did Pont compile his maps? The evidence of manuscript 9
(Banff). 

PROF CHARLES MCKEAN (DUNDEE UNIVERSITY)
Pont's Angus architecture in detail.
___________________________________________________________ 

COST  15.00 pounds per head   (concessions 12.00 pounds)
to include morning & afternoon tea or coffee & sandwich
lunch
____________________________________________________________ 

BOOKING FORMS (to be returned by 22 January 1999) are
available from:
EMAIL   [log in to unmask]
TEL     0131-226 4531 x 3418
FAX     0131-466 3812                

Project Pont  
Map Library 
National Library of Scotland  
33 Salisbury Place 
Edinburgh EH9 1SL
Scotland   
__________________________________________________________

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.
 
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 Project's 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
__________________________________________________________

Project Pont  
Map Library 
National Library of Scotland  
33 Salisbury Place 
Edinburgh EH9 1SL
Scotland   

EMAIL   [log in to unmask]
TEL     0131-226 4531 x 3418
FAX     0131-466 3812                



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