The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 32
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9776
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 32
- Title:
- Portolan atlas, Spanish; cartographic material
- Olives, Bartolomeo
- Place:
- Majorca
- Date:
- between 1585 and 1599
- Language:
- Spanish
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 15 : parchment ; 231 x 325 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially. Border is red band between double ruled black lines.
Span folios: ff. 1-15v.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in several display scripts; land masses outlined in color, islands painted red, green, silver or gold; no compass roses, but on each chart one single 32 rhumb line pattern emanates from a central point with black, red and green ink for the principal directions and with symbols for the 8 winds marked at...
Probably made in Majorca (since nomenclature is mainly in Spanish, with many additions in Arabic on charts 6, 7 and 8), though the Olives/Oliva family of cartographers later worked in Messina and in Marseilles; dated after 1580 because of the Spanish standards in Brazil and the alignment of the South American coast.
Assigned Date: s. XVIex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Pencilled notes on paper backing of f. 1 "from Payne 1824" and "Payne MAP of the WORLD"; De Ricci cites Abate Celotti sale, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, "possibly n. 206 to Thorpe for Sir T. Phillipps"; however, HM 32 is described in the Middle Hill catalogue p. 11 as n. 208 of the Bibliotheca Celotti; Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp and "Phillipps MS 956" on f. 1. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862006
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46101/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
