The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 30
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9774
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 30
- Title:
- Portolan atlas, engraved, with manuscript additions; cartographic material
- Fassoi, Marcheto
- Place:
- Venice
- Date:
- 1679
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 8 : parchment ; 280 x 395 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Map is engraved but contains manuscript additions and coloring.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially with stubs. Varied borders of small colored geometric designs.
Span folios: ff. 1-8v.
Each chart is inscribed, "16-- Armigero Marcheto Fassoi fecit --79." Probably made in Venice since nomenclature is Italian with occasional Venetian dialectal forms.
Other Decoration: Nomenclature in black in a minuscule script; land mass outlines overtraced in color with islands painted gold, red, blue, or green; 3 to 5 compass roses on each chart, colored; generally each chart has a 32 rhumb line network in black with broken lines to indicate quarterwinds; no latitude or longitude; distance indicated by a series of small circles diagonally across one...
Assigned Date: s. XVII4/4.
Physical Issues: Engraving.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
From library of the Abate Luigi Celotti (ca. 1768-ca. 1846); his sale, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, n. 208 to Thomas Thorpe; pencilled number "85" on front pastedown; "200" and "3/3/0" pencilled on back pastedown probably refer to catalogue number and sale price of Thomas Thorpe; Sir Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp on front pastedown and "Phillipps MS 4352" written on front of chart 1. The... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862004
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46247/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
