The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 218

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9771

Shelfmark:

mssHM 218

Title:

Matheus da Gaio, Portolan chart, 19th or 20th century forgery

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

19th century

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 483 x 371 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Oval map of the world, including eastern coast of North and South America. Almost certainly a forgery, as is HM 217. On the map, the inscription, "Opus Mathei Da Gaio In Venetia anno domini MDXVI Sub Serenissimo Duce Leonardo Lauredan" with a coat of arms. Appears to have been made by the same cartographer as HM 217. It cannot be of the date inscribed since it bears the place names "Nova...
Support: Parchment.
Layout: No borders.
Other Decoration: Nomenclature in red ink, area names overlaid with gold in square capitals; land masses outlined in black ink overtraced in ocher; no compass roses, no rhumb lines, no latitude or longitude; no scale of distance; decorated with 8 wind-heads, scrolls for titles, a compass in one corner and coat of arms in another.
Assigned Date: s. XIX?
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
Purchased by Henry Huntington in 1925 from Weymer Mills, London, who stated in a lettre preserved in Library files that the manuscripts [HM 217 and HM 218] "have been in the possession of an English family for 500 years."

Keyword:

portolanos

forgeries (derivative objects)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862001

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52900/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens