Portolan atlas, Spanish; cartographic material (DS9776) (Q43332)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620061, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862006, mssHM 32)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Portolan atlas, Spanish; cartographic material (DS9776) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620061, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862006, mssHM 32) |
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Olives, Bartolomeo
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Atlases (Geographic)--Spain--16th century
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Portolanos--Spain--16th century
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between 1585 and 1599
16. century
1585
1599
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Extent: ff. 15 : parchment ; 231 x 325 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially. Border is red band between double ruled black lines.
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Span folios: ff. 1-15v.
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Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in several display scripts; land masses outlined in color, islands painted red, green, silver or gold; no compass roses, but on each chart one single 32 rhumb line pattern emanates from a central point with black, red and green ink for the principal directions and with symbols for the 8 winds marked at...
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Probably made in Majorca (since nomenclature is mainly in Spanish, with many additions in Arabic on charts 6, 7 and 8), though the Olives/Oliva family of cartographers later worked in Messina and in Marseilles; dated after 1580 because of the Spanish standards in Brazil and the alignment of the South American coast.
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Assigned Date: s. XVIex.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
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Pencilled notes on paper backing of f. 1 "from Payne 1824" and "Payne MAP of the WORLD"; De Ricci cites Abate Celotti sale, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, "possibly n. 206 to Thorpe for Sir T. Phillipps"; however, HM 32 is described in the Middle Hill catalogue p. 11 as n. 208 of the Bibliotheca Celotti; Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp and "Phillipps MS 956" on f. 1.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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