The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 39

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9783

Shelfmark:

mssHM 39

Title:

Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material

Place:

Macao

Macau TGN

Date:

between 1625 and 1650

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Portuguese with laid-in map of Mexico City in Spanish

Portuguese WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 181 : paper ; 270 x 355 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Layout: 18(blank leaves) 210(blank leaves) 310(ff. 19-25 blank) 4-610 710(ff. 79-80 and remaining leaves, blank). Single ruled black borders.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display scripts; land masses outlined in color, with islands painted blue, green, red, or gold; one compass rose on each chart (except ff. 55v-56, which has none) with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; a numbered latitude scale on each chart with...
Produced ca. 1630. Native paper. The charts are drawn across openings on ff. 25v-77 with folios left blank between charts; ff. 86v-113 have black rhumb lines drawn on alternate openings in preparation for making charts, but these prepared pages have been glued together so only the blank sides show. Maturity of delineation of Japan and detailed knowledge of Asian and East Indian area coupled...
Assigned Date: s. XVII2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
The notations on f. 180v "De Gaspar Mĩz" [Martínez?], "K" on f. lv and "No 36" written on binding in seventeenth century hands may indicate early owners. Sold in 1863 by Bernard Quaritch to Henry Huth (1815-78). Huth ex libris on inside front cover. Notation "Portolano (5) p. 1171" pencilled on f. 1 indicates The Huth Library (1880) pt. 4, 1171 .

Keyword:

portolanos

Atlases (Geographic)

manuscripts (documents)

Bookplates

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862013

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46211/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens