The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 40

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9784

Shelfmark:

mssHM 40

Title:

Portolan atlas, Italian; cartographic material

Author:

Oliva, Joannes, active 1589-1650

Joannes Oliva WIKIDATA

Place:

Naples

Naples TGN

Date:

1602, July 6

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 1140 x 730 mm

Former Owner(s):

Vollbehr, Otto H. F. 1869-1946

Otto Vollbehr WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
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 silver, red, or green; 9 compass roses (many elaborately drawn); usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 18° to 66° forming left border of chart (with Azores...
Inscribed with names of cartographer, place and date, 6 July 1602.
Assigned Date: s. XVIIin.
Physical Issues: Full skin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Otto Vollbehr collection (possibly number 8326 or 38579 which are pencilled on flap of scroll).

Keyword:

portolanos

Atlases (Geographic)

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862014

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48056/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens