The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 35
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9779
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 35
- Title:
- Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material
- Freire, João, active 1546
- Place:
- Portugal
- Date:
- 1546
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 7 : parchment ; 461 x 557 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Folios arranged sequentially with stubs. Small black borders on 3 sides with decorative markings.
Span folios: ff. 1-7v.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in green, with islands painted gold, red, or blue; each chart has from 6 to 13 compass roses and the usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; each chart has a numbered latitude scale (except charts 1 and 7), but no...
Chart 7 is inscribed "joham freire a fez era de .546."
Assigned Date: s. XVImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Endpapers bear numbers "970," "171," "D. 1. 1563*"; atlas is first known in the library of Baron Taylor in 1841-42 (not in his 1848 sale). Sale of Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, n. 827, with reproduction of chart 7 on pl. 33 to Quaritch. There is no Huth ex libris, as mentioned in this sequence in PMC 1:153 , nor are there any marks or signs that it ever existed in this... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862009
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46255/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
