The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 58316

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9635

Shelfmark:

mssHM 58316

Title:

Portolan atlas, Italian

Place:

Venice?

Venice TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 78 : paper ; 160 x 230 mm

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Script: Humanistic.
Layout: Vertical catchwords. 24 long lines, blind ruled, with pairs of full-height verticals to either side of the text area, colored initials placed between the left pair, the top two and bottom two horizontals ruled the full width of the leaf.
Watermark(s): A crowned displayed eagle, closest to Briquet, Filigranes, nos. 87-88 and 90-91; ff. 75-76 with a duck(?) within a circle, closest to Briquet nos. 12202, 12204.
Span folios: ff. 1-78v.
Written in Italy, after 1445 (on f. 13, a note mentioning that date), perhaps at Venice, to judge by the dialect and watermarks.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/4/2009.
The front cover inscribed, s. XVII/XVIII, "26". Inscribed, s. XVIII, "Questo Codice é intitolato Portolano" (inner face of front cover; cf. spine-title), below a three-and-a-half line erased inscription. Giannalisa Feltrinelli, with her bookplate; her sale at Christie's, Part II, 3 December, 1997, lot 193). Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd, London; acquired by the Huntington through the Library...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861859

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53293/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens