The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 37

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9781

Shelfmark:

mssHM 37

Title:

Portolan atlas, Italian; cartographic material

Author:

Roussin, Jean François

Jean-François Roussin WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

1661

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 2 : parchment ; 350 x 510 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially. Yellow band borders.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in color with islands painted red, blue, green or gold; from 6 to 14 elaborate compass roses on each chart with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions (on chart 3 the rhumb lines cover the sea area only); no latitude...
Name of the cartographer, date and place are inscribed on chart 1.
Assigned Date: s. XVIImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Inside cover and label on front bear number "209" (which apparently was misread by De Ricci as 1119) from the sale of the library of the Abate Luigi Celotti, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, n. 209 to Thomas Thorpe (numbers 66 and 67 inside front cover may be from this sale) who sold it ca. 1825 to Phillipps. Sir Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp inside back cover and his number 2550 altered from 2634.

Keyword:

portolanos

Atlases (Geographic)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862011

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46285/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens