Newberry Library, VAULT oversize Ayer MS map 25

Metadata

DS ID:

DS17908

Shelfmark:

VAULT oversize Ayer MS map 25

Title:

Manuscript portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas] /

Portolan chart

Author:

Volcius, Vicentius Demetrius, fl. 1563-1607

Vicentius Demetrius Volcius WIKIDATA

Date:

1595.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Includes Italian and Latin place names

Italian WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

hand col., parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 ms. map : hand col., parchment ; on sheet 482 x 784 mm.

Note:

Authorship statement partly obscured.
Pen-and-ink and paint (brown, red, blue, gold); includes portrait of Saint Paul (85 x 68 mm.)
Owned by bookseller Charles Chadenat; pencil note on verso dated 1902.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).

Keyword:

Mediterranean Sea

Maps

Early works

Nautical charts

Black Sea

Manuscript maps

Paul, the Apostle, Saint

Art

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993149038805867

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library