Newberry Library, VAULT oversize Ayer MS map 22

Metadata

DS ID:

DS17906

Shelfmark:

VAULT oversize Ayer MS map 22

Title:

Manuscript portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas] /

Portolan chart

Author:

Tatton, Gabriel

Gabriel Tatton WIKIDATA

Date:

1506 [i.e. 1596?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

hand col., vellum

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 ms. map : hand col., vellum ; on sheet 455 x 773 mm.

Note:

Third digit in date apparently altered; Gabriel Tatton was active as late as 1616. See Tooley's Dictionary of mapmakers (1979) and the Newberry Library Map Information File.
Includes 4 tables of island and port names (in Italian) keyed to lettered and numbered sites on the chart.
Tatton was a member of the "Thames" or "Drapers' School" of mapmakers; cf. Tony Campbell, "The Drapers' Company and its school of seventeenth century chart-makers" in Wallis and Tyacke (eds.) My head is a map ... (London, 1973) p. 100-101; cf. Schilder, Günter. Cartographica monumenta Neerlandica VII. Cornelis Claesz ... (Alpen an den Rijn, 2003) p. 291; cf. Le Gear, Clara Egli...
Pen-and-ink and paint (red, green, yellow, gold, blue)
Dealer's note (?) on verso: Fol. 25723a.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).

Keyword:

Mediterranean Sea

Maps

Early works

Nautical charts

Black Sea

Manuscript maps

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993147968805867

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library