Harvard University, MS Ital 126

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10987

Shelfmark:

MS Ital 126

Title:

Documenti facili con alcune Annotazioni necessarie a chi desidera introdursi nell'esercizio dilettevole della Geografia; con il Modo di fabbricare la Palla materiale rappresentante il Globo Terracqueo, Di dividerla ne suoi Circoli, Di segnarvi i Nomi delle Città, Luoghi e Provincie, con ogni giusta misura, ed intiera perfezione / F. P. Pompeia Civena, Ordin. Min. S. Francisci Provinciæ S...

Author:

Civena, Pompeia

F. P. Pompeia Civena WIKIDATA

Date:

1600.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

ill.

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (182 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Silvestri, E

E. Silvestri WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an unidentified hand, in Italy.
Full-page title-page drawing in ink showing a cosmographer, explaining geographical problems to a lady (or a personification?) on a porch with a marine view; two winged putti display title on drapery.
With two double-page maps in ink, representing the British Isles ("Anglia et Hibernia"; between pp. 88-89), the other of the two hemispheres ("Orbis descriptio tota"; between pp. 90-91); and of a globe of the earth (p. 68).
Includes instructions for a mariner's compass (pp. 148-152).
Bound in half russia.
Gift of David P. Wheatland, 1986.
Bookplate of E. Silvestri, Milan, by 1908.

Keyword:

maps (documents)

Drawings

Geography

Globes

Europe--British Isles

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098701010203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University