The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 427

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9618

Shelfmark:

mssHM 427

Title:

Portolan chart; cartographic material

Author:

Maggiolo, Vesconte, active 1504-1549

Visconte Maggiolo WIKIDATA

Place:

Naples

Naples TGN

Date:

1516].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 1020 x 1520 (1010 x 1515) mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Parchment, f. 1 (full skin); 1020 x 1520 (1010 x 1515 including left extension) mm. Red border at top edged by black band that continues around left side, no borders on bottom or right.
Written in Naples and dated 7 May 1516 by Vesconte Maggiolo. Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule hand with area names in gothic script.
American coast, Scotland, and England outlined in color (very faded), other land masses in black ink only; 10 compass roses with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 40° S to 67° N, no longitude; 4 unnumbered scales of distance; decorated with imaginary animals, kings in pavillions, vignettes of cities, banners, 3...
Inscribed near top: "Vesconte de Maiollo ianuensis conposuy hanc cartan in Neapoly anno 1516 die vij Maiy". Coat of arms of first owner (?): azure, 3 bands sinister argent (?), on a chief argent (?) oak leaves in saltire. Pencilled number on the back "11627." Exhibited by Paul Gottschalk in 1914 (see Boston Evening Transcript, 1 April 1914, p. 25). Sold by Otto Lange, Cat. 43 (Florence 1922...

Keyword:

Atlases (Geographic)

portolanos

maps (documents)

manuscripts (documents)

World maps

Nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1852187

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll4:15998/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens