From the British Library blog 05 MAY 2020 An atlas fit for a Tudor queen The Tudor period saw Britain transform into a major maritime power, boasting a formidable navy and sending ships on voyages of exploration around the world. With this transformation came a surge of interest in maps and map-making at the Tudor Court. A few weeks ago, we announced that we had digitised the Burghley Atlas (Royal MS 18 D III)<https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2020/03/surveying-lord-burghleys-atlas.html>, an important Early Modern collection of maps made for Elizabeth I’s principal minister Sir William Cecil. Today, we are highlighting another newly digitised item, widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of 16th-century cartography: The Queen Mary Atlas (Add MS 5415 A<https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5415_A>). https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2020/05/an-atlas-fit-for-a-tudor-queen.html<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.bl.uk%2Fdigitisedmanuscripts%2F2020%2F05%2Fan-atlas-fit-for-a-tudor-queen.html&data=02%7C01%7Cacope%40uwm.edu%7Cc74d158984134763266708d7f0830317%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C1%7C0%7C637242317794842592&sdata=3whu%2BGMVkWdtPkoNtv5GSRh8qqu99ura3v9lXwqvmCY%3D&reserved=0> A direct link to the digital record: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_5415_a_f005r Angie Cope AGS Library, UW Milwaukee Libraries 2311 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 <http://www.uwm.edu/libraries>http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414)229-6282 43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W [1505846149570_image001.png] __,_._,___
