The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 29

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9607

Shelfmark:

mssHM 29

Title:

Portolan atlas; cartographic material

Place:

Dieppe, France

Dieppe TGN

Date:

1547].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 34 leaves : parchment ; 280 x 390 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
On title page, f. 1, under an armillary sphere is written "Nicolas Vallard de Dieppe, 1547." Vallard was probably not the cartographer, but the first owner, whose coat of arms may be those in the center of the border illustrations on chart 11: argent on a saltire sable (or gules?) five besants, in chief a mullet sable pierced of the field. Owned by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord...
Also widely known as the "Vallard atlas".
Parchment, ff. iv (early modern parchment and paper) + 34 (17 sheets folded in center, back sides of nautical charts are blank) + iv (early modern parchment and paper); 390 ₉ 280 mm. (map size, 370 ₉ 480 mm. on double page openings, with many variants).

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Atlases (Geographic)

World maps

Atlases

Early maps

Nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1842785

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53470/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens