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...
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