This map of the Scottish province Aberdeen was published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> (1598-1673) in his atlas of Scotland in 1654. Though the detailed descriptions commissioned by the Scottish Government and produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gordon_of_Straloch" class="extiw" title="en:Robert Gordon of Straloch">Robert Gordon of Straloch</a> (1580-1661) formed the basis of the atlas, most images were directly copied from a manuscript by the Scottish cartographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Pont" class="extiw" title="en:Timothy Pont">Timothy Pont</a> (c. 1560-1614). Gordon had completed the collection with eleven maps by his own hand, the map of Aberdeen being one of those.
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