The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 2098

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9793

Shelfmark:

mssHM 2098

Title:

Portolan chart

Place:

London

London TGN

Date:

between 1600 and 1615

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 400 x 590 mm

Note:

Anonymous portolan chart of the west coast of Europe from southern Scotland to Cape Palmas on the coast of Africa. Probably made in London by a member of the Thames School of Chartmakers at the beginning of the 17th century.
Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Border is yellow band edged in black with simple arabesque and dot design, on three sides only, which suggests it may be a "half-chart" of the North Atlantic. Black and red ink for nomenclature, in a cursive hand with area names in display script.
Land masses outlined in color, islands painted red and green; 2 compass roses (main one with Tudor rose in center); usual 32 rhumb line network with black, red and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 5° to 56° N, no longitude; numbered distance scale in cartouche decorated with stylized leaf and fruit design; no decoration except for the distance scale and...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012.
No owners' markings; according to Anderson sale catalogue, chart was found in chest of documents related to Plymouth district of Devonshire, all dated before 1601. Belonged to E. Williams. Sale by Anderson, New York, Cat. 1430, 13 May 1919, n. 304 to G. D. Smith from whom it was acquired by Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

portolanos

nautical charts

manuscripts (documents)

Nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862023

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48094/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens