The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1548

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9769

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1548

Title:

Portolan chart; cartographic material

Place:

Venice?

Venice TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 810 x 675 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910

Alfred Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth Library

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Nautical chart of the Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia, probably made in northeastern Italy (Venice?), judging from linguistic characteristics, and possibly before 1492, since map appears to precede Spanish reconquest of Granada.
Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment (full skin). Layout: Borders are triple ruled in black and red on top and bottom only.
Land masses outlined in black ink (Ireland overtraced in green, Scotland in pale red, traces of ocher on other coasts) with islands painted gold, green, red or blue; no compass roses, instead the symbols for the 4 principal directions are inscribed on two rhumb line intersections, one on the upper and one on the right sides; several rhumb line patterns, some with 32 lines, many only partial; a...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
Sold in 1867 by Henry Stevens (1791-1867) to Henry Huth, The Huth Library (1880), pt. 4, 1171. Sale of Alfred Henry Huth, Sotheby's, 11 July 1917, pt. VI, n. 5913 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

portolanos

manuscripts (documents)

World maps

Nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861999

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48444/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens