The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 43

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9787

Shelfmark:

mssHM 43

Title:

Portolan chart, English; cartographic material

Author:

Welch, Andrew, active 1649-1680

Andrew Welch WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1650 and 1675

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 475 x 690 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Stevens, Henry, Sr., 1791-1867

Henry Stevens WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Span folios: f. 1r-v.
Other Decoration: Border is yellow band edged in black with simple arabesque and dot design on 3 sides only, indicating that this may be a "half-chart" of the North Atlantic. Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in color with islands painted blue, green, red, or yellow; 2 compass roses (one with Tudor rose in center...
Probably made in London about 1674 by Andrew Welch of the Thames School, judging from the marked similarity to his chart of this date for the North Atlantic in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (NMM G 213:2/5). T. R. Smith suggest that HM 43 may be the western half of a North Atlantic chart at the British Library (Add. 31858) which he attributes to "Samuel" Welch.
Assigned Date: s. XVII3/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
Sold in 1868 from the library of Henry Stevens (1791-1867) to Henry Huth (1815-78); Huth's ex libris on pastedown and note "Portolano (7), p. 1171" indicating The Huth Library (1880) pt. 4, 1171 .

Keyword:

portolanos

Bookplates

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862017

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48323/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens