The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9790

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47

Title:

Portolan chart, French; cartographic material

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1600 and 1625

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 460 x 635 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Black band border.
Span folios: f. 1r-v.
Other Decoration: Black ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in color, smaller islands painted gold, silver, or green; 2 intricate compass roses with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 77° to 80°, no longitude; numbered scale of distance in an elaborate...
Chart was probably made in France (since area names are in French), possibly between 1615 and 1623 (since conflicting Danish and Dutch claims are noted).
Assigned Date: s. XVII1/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
The only marking is the number "13" in a seventeenth century hand on verso (once in pencil and once in red ink), probably a page number in a volume of maps.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862020

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46257/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens