The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 28

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS9773

Shelfmark:

mssHM 28

Title:

Portolan atlas, Italian; cartographic material

Author:

Ghisolfi, Francesco, active 16th century

Francesco Ghisolfi WIKIDATA

Place:

Genoa?

Genoa TGN

Date:

between 1550 and 1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 14 : parchment ; 410 x 277 mm

Note:

Support: Parchment.
Layout: Single folios attached sequentially with stubs. Borders decorated with stylized acanthus leaves in gold, edged in black.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with square capitals for display script; land masses outlined in azure and gold; charts with one compass rose each (except number 8, where it is omitted); usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red and green ink for the principal directions; no latitude or longitude; distance indicated on each chart by series of small...
Probably made in Genoa, which was Ghisolfi's home town.
Assigned Date: s. XVI2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
On flyleaf, "Hanrott 1328 letters 1833" in reference to Philip Augustus Hanrott sale, Evans, 1833, pt. I, n. 1328 to French; on verso of first flyleaf and on f. 1, Sir Thomas Phillipps' notes "Phillipps MS 22796"; an unsigned, undated note in a British hand on end flyleaf states "This atlas is by the same hand as the one in Riccardiana Florence No 3140 which has verses at the end dedicated to...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

Atlases (Geographic)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862003

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46064/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens