Newberry Library, VAULT folio Ayer MS map 21

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17911

Shelfmark:

VAULT folio Ayer MS map 21

Title:

Manuscript portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and the African coast] /

Portolan atlas

Author:

Martines, Joan, 1556-1590

Joan Martines WIKIDATA

Date:

1583.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

5 hand col. maps, vellum

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 ms. atlas ([10] leaves) : 5 hand col. maps, vellum ; 37 cm.

Note:

Authorship statement from chart of northwestern Africa.
Vellum charts (pen-and-ink and paint: red, green, gold, blue, yellow) backed with paper and mounted with paper stubs.
Verso of last chart includes annotation tracing previous ownership, including 1595 inscription signed "W.L. Burghly [?]" (i.e. William Cecil, Lord Burghley?) noting that he was given the atlas by Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham and chief English admiral during the Spanish Armada of 1588; inscription, apparently by Pierre Esprit Radisson, French explorer and fur trader in North America...
Owned by George Wilbraham (bookplate, 19th cent.?)
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).

Keyword:

Nautical charts

Africa--Atlantic Coast

Early works

Mediterranean Sea

Maps

Africa

Coasts

Manuscript maps

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993154558805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z9UJZWK

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library