The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 2515
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9772
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 2515
- Title:
- Portolan charts
- Oliva, Salvator
- Place:
- Marseilles
- Date:
- 1619
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 3 : parchment ; 286 x 404 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Two nautical charts of the Mediterranean and the Western coast of Europe and northwestern Africa. Inscribed "Salvator Oliva fecit in civitate marsiliae, Anno 1619."
Span folios: ff. 1-3v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially with tabs. Border is a red band with a single black rule on each side. Black and red ink for nomenclature, in a humanistic hand with display script in square capitals.
Land masses outlined in color, islands painted blue, red, green or gold; chart 1 has 10 compass roses, chart 2 has 6; usual 32 rhumb line network in black, green, and red for the principal directions; no latitude or longitude; chart 1 has 3 unnumbered scales of distance and chart 2 has 2; elaborate vignettes of Marseilles on both charts and highly decorated cartouches for scales of distance.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
Sale of the library of Abate Luigi Celotti, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, lot 207. A sale catalogue slip affixed to front pastedown describes a "...map of the World on three leaves." Since this volume also contains the Mediterranean chart made by Estienne Bremond (HM 31) which forms the third leaf and since neither is a "World map," the sale catalogue entry either was carelessly made or the slip... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862002
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46339/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
