The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9616
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 25
- Title:
- Portolan atlas; cartographic material
- Agnese, Battista, active 16th century
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- approximately 1540].
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 volume with 13 leaves : parchment ; 223 x 160 mm. (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Former Owner(s):
- Heber, Richard, 1773-1833
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Charts in the characteristic style of Battista Agnese, probably made in Venice, since Venetian linguistic forms appear in map notations; they can be dated about 1539-40, based on geographical features.
Parchment, ff. i + 13 (12 sheets folded in center and pasted back to back) + iii; 223 ₉ 160 mm. (map size, 193 ₉ 293 mm. on double page openings). Bifolia attached sequentially. Single ruled black borders. Modern pencilled foliation. Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with square capitals for display script; land masses outlined in blue ink with islands painted gold...
Bound, s. XVI, in Italian red morocco over wooden boards, stamped in gold with fleurets and ornamental designs on front and back (the same as HM 26); remains of 4 clasps.
Arms of first owner (?) on f. 1, partly erased or painted out: or an indistinct object sable (?) on a chief gules a cross argent. Owner's markings "676" and "H VIII n.3" pencilled on front pastedown along with "436 Guilford" indicating the sale of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), London, 8 December 1830, n. 436 to Thomas Thorpe. "Th 1833" and "Heber" in Phillipps' hand on... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849982
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46117/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
