The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 44

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9788

Shelfmark:

mssHM 44

Title:

Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material

Portolan atlas

Author:

Velho, Bartolomeu, -1568

Bartolomeu Velho WIKIDATA

Place:

Portugal

Portugal TGN

Date:

between 1550 and 1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 9 : parchment ; 330 x 440 mm

Former Owner(s):

Stevens, Henry, Sr., 1791-1867

Henry Stevens WIKIDATA

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolia arranged sequentially. Double banded purple border.
Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in square capitals; land masses outlined in color, islands painted blue, green, red, or gold; 1 to 5 compass roses on each chart (except 5v, which has none); usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; numbered latitude scale on each chart, but no longitude...
Made in Portugal in the second half of the 16th century, with additions on ff. 2, 5v and 6 probably made later in France.
Assigned Date: s. XVI2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
The early endpapers affixed to modern parchment front and back bear oval ownership stamp with laurel wreath surrounding initials AY (?); owned by Henry Stevens (1791-1867); sale of his library, 1868, to Henry Huth (1815-78); his ex libris on front pastedown and pencilled notation "Portolano (6) p. 1171" indicating The Huth Library (1880) pt. 4, 1171.

Keyword:

Bookplates

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

Portugal

Sixteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862018

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens