The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 42

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9786

Shelfmark:

mssHM 42

Title:

Portolan atlas, Spanish; cartographic material

Portolan atlas

Place:

Majorca

Mallorca TGN

Date:

between 1575 and 1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 sheets : parchment ; 682 x `395 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Borders are narrow yellow bands outlined with double ruled black lines. The two sheets are separate, not formed into a gathering.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in black ink on chart 1 and in colors on chart 2, larger islands outlined in color and smaller islands painted red, blue or green on both charts and in gold on chart 2; chart 1 has 13 compass roses and chart 2, 14; usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and...
Measurements given above are for Chart 1; those of Chart 2 are 397 x 551. Probably made toward the end of the 16th century in Majorca, judging from linguistic characteristics. 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. XVI4/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Sold (1868) by Boone (?) to Henry Huth. Ex libris of Henry Huth (1815-78) and note "Portolano (3) p. 1171" on front pastedown; The Huth Library (1880) pt. 4, 1171 .

Keyword:

Atlases (Geographic)

Spain

Sixteenth century

Bookplates

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862016

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens