Extent: 1 ms. atlas ([7] leaves) : 6 hand col. maps, parchment ; 31 cm.
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Unsigned atlas attributed to the Venetian portolan maker Giacomo Giroldi in Akerman, James. "From books with maps to books as maps: the editor in the creation of the atlas idea" in Editing early and historical atlases ... / ed. by Joan Winearls (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995) p. 5-7, 15-16, and 38, note 6. Pen-and-ink and paint (red, green, brown, yellow, blue). Vellum charts pasted back-to-back within contemporary binding of wood boards covered with stamped leather (triangles within rectangles, double-ruled). For list of Giroldi's works see Campbell, Tony. "Portolan charts from the late thirteenth century to 1500" in The History of Cartography / ed. by Harley and Woodward (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) v. 1, p. 452-453. Unidentified dealer's description trimmed from a printed catalog and pasted inside back cover: "A very antient map of the world, folded in canvas, within boarded covers, of the fifteenth century, upon vellum, folio." Owned by Thomas Phillipps: "957 MSS. Phillipps" above the stamped crest and initials of Phillipps on verso of last leaf. Description from Catalogue of geography, voyages, travels, history of America, Africa, Australasia and Asia ... (London: [Bernard Quaritch], 1899), catalogue 188, p. 113, no. 906 pasted inside front cover. "Quaritch 1902. £25.00" in pencil on first leaf. Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
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