The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 34

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9778

Shelfmark:

mssHM 34

Title:

Portolan atlas, French; cartographic material

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1590 and 1610

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian and French

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 5 : parchment ; 211 x 310 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially. Black band borders.
Span folios: ff. 1-5v.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in color, islands painted gold, green, blue, or red; each chart has from 3 to 14 compass roses with usual 32 rhumb line network with black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; no latitude or longitude; unnumbered scale of distance on each chart...
Probably made ca. 1600 in France from an Italian prototype, since cities are in Italianate form while area names are in French. Probably made by a member of the Oliva family according to letter on file from H. Derek Howse of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Assigned Date: s. XVI/XVII.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
First chart bears pencilled letters "MHC" and "Libri 475" indicating the sale of Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Sotheby's, 28 July 1862, n. 475 to Jackson. Sir Thomas Phillipps' n. 16406 written on first chart.

Keyword:

Atlases (Geographic)

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862008

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46219/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens