Newberry Library, VAULT slipcase Ayer MS map 1

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17904

Shelfmark:

VAULT slipcase Ayer MS map 1

Title:

La sfera

La sfera

Author:

Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436

Gregorio Dati WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

illustrations, 12 hand color ms. maps, vellum

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 48] pages : illustrations, 12 hand color ms. maps, vellum ; 29 cm

Note:

Cited as "La sfera" or "La spera" in secondary literature. In this copy (one of some 200 ms. copies extant), the first book is not titled, but books 2-4 are headed "Libro secondo della spera", etc.
Pen-and-ink and paint (blue, green, brown, red, yellow, gold); written in a fine humanist hand; page [1] includes elaborate white vine-stem border and and an unidentified coat-of-arms; bound in 19th-century (?) gold papier boards.
Unidentified bookdealer's description (in French) trimmed from printed catalog and pasted inside front cover.
Forms part of both the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection and the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).

Keyword:

World maps, Manuscript

Early works

Cosmography

Textbooks

Astrology

Nautical charts

Black Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Maps

Geography

Manuscript maps

Manuscripts, Italian

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993139118805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZS4YRL9C

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library