Cambriae Typus

Made by Elizabethan polymath Humphrey Llwyd in 1573, the map shows Wales stretching to the River Severn, including large areas of what is now England.

Humphrey Llwyd (1527–1568), a Welsh historian, physician and politician, though not a professional surveyor, began work on the Cambriae Typus late in his life.

In a letter shortly before his death he sent the manuscript of the map to Abraham Ortelius, who published it in the 1573 Additamentum to the 1570 publication of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

[5] Location names on the front of the map are given in Latin, English and Welsh, while the back side contains the equivalent text in German.

[1] In total five revisions were made to Llwyd's map,[2] including a copper etching by Peter Kaerius, published by Jodocus Hondius in 1603.