The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 31

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9775

Shelfmark:

mssHM 31

Title:

Portolan atlas, French; cartographic material

Author:

Bremond, Estienne

Estienne Bremond WIKIDATA

Place:

Marseilles

Marseilles TGN

Date:

1655

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 2 : parchment ; 288 x 405 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolium attached with stub. Border is a yellow band triple ruled on each side in black ink.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a cursive hand; land masses outlined in color, islands painted gold, red, or blue; 8 compass roses with usual 32 rhumb line network in black; red and green ink for principal directions; no latitude or longitude; 2 unnumbered scales of distance; decorated with vignettes of cities and an elaborate cartouche for one distance scale.
Signed, "Faict a Marseille par Estienne Bremond, 1655."
Assigned Date: s. XVIImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Sale of the library of Abate Luigi Celotti (ca. 1768-ca. 1846), 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 two charts made by Salvator Oliva (HM 02515) which form the first and second leaves and since neither is a "World map," the sale catalogue entry either was...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

atlases

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862005

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46341/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens