The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1549

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9792

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1549

Title:

Portolan chart; cartographic material

Author:

Teixeira, Luís, active 16th century

Luís Teixeira WIKIDATA

Place:

Lisbon

Lisbon TGN

Date:

between 1590 and 1610].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 950 x 595 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910

Alfred Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth Library

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Portolan chart by Luís Teixeira, inscribed "Por Luis Teixeira em Lixboa", created ca. 1600. Nautical chart of Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and portion of Scandinavia.
Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment (full skin). Layout: Border is red band outlined in black.
Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea coasts and Scotland outlined in red ink, other Atlantic coasts colored green, with islands painted gold, green, red or blue; 15 elaborate compass roses, 7 with the symbols for the 8 wind directions; usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 20° to 63° N, no longitude; 2 distance scales on...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012.
Sold in 1867 by Henry Stevens (1791-1867) to Henry Huth, The Huth Library (1880), pt. 4, 1171. Sale of Alfred Henry Huth, Sotheby's, 11 July 1917, pt. VI, n. 5914 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

World maps

Nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862022

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48058/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens